On Tue, 18 May 1999, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Anyway, the more I thought about this and the more we discussed it
> amongst ourselves here at SciTech, the more we realised that the
> problem is that there is currently no mechanism for any commercial
> organisation to put funding behind Mesa.
I have a few thoughts on this:
* I think it would be better for the organization with the money to
use it to implement what they need using conventional employees
and/or consultants and to then simply contribute the resulting
code. That way, they get exactly what they want and there is no
rift or feelings of unease amongst the unpaid developers.
This also gets around some ugly issues of how tax gets paid on
these fund, whether the person doing the work needs a work permit
for some countries, vacations, benefits, etc, etc.
* In that light, it would be interesting for there to be a kind of
consultancy company to whom casual freeware authors could sign up
when they do need to take money from someone like Id.
> (someone needs to pay for all the caffiene and twinkies the Open
> Source hacker consumes!)
(Diet Coke and M&M's...but yes :-)
> Then to my utter surprise, I saw the announcement on
> Linux World:
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-05/lw-05-ora.html
Interesting. Unfortunately, it's the *lack* of all that corporate
red tape (milestones, reviews, etc, etc) that makes freeware development
so much more interesting than "real" work. Whilst I'd like to
earn some money for doing this stuff (well, technically, it's my
wife who'd like me to earn some money doing it) - if it turns into
a job just like real work, I might as well just work more overtime
on my day job.
There was another one too (different model for doing
business - but also interesting):
http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar.html
Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail)
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