This issue, direct & official financial compensation to core contributors, is the subject of passionate debate and was, in fact, the primary focus of discussion during the Open Source Matters session at Joomla Day East 2009.
Interestingly enough, I didn't hear a lot of discussion about it at the Joomla Developers Conference earlier this month. But then I was only able to attend the 2nd day of that conference, so presumably it may have been discussed earlier. I am not going to take sides here except to say I hope the conversations can focus on development methodologies that are specific to Joomla, and not veer off into general recapitulations of ongoing notions of Open Source business models. I won't bother to cite examples of other Open Source projects that don't seem to have such a problem. This last statement is not intended as a troll, but rather a source of optimism. ;-) cheers, Forest Mars -- "In theory, theory and practice are exactly the same. In practice, they're completely different." ------------------------------------------------------------------ This email is: [ ] private: do not forward [ x ] o.k. to forward [ ] o.k. to blog [ ] ask first -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBRkjTLDbz7LySoccvEQJDcQCguZZj4M4kOVOlOX4CtbgR0rppsdovAjra 3RRXIlkdzuYI0YJz4WyvKlTn =MLhk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------ The New TLDs are Here! Switch to Name.Space: http://namespace.org/switch Support new domains & keep free media free! Register yours today! https://secure.name-space.com/registry
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