Eric, Not to go too far afield, but I’m also not on anyone’s payroll, so I buy my own individual-plan health insurance. Yes, it’s more expensive, but that’s the price of not having just one boss :)
-mel beckman > On Jun 27, 2019, at 10:46 AM, Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mehmet Akcin <[email protected]>: >>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 08:41 Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The members of this list are, I think, much more aware tham most that >>> a lot of critical Internet software is maintained by unfunded >>> volunteers, and of the systemic risks that result from this. >> >> Please explain. This is not true. > > Tell it to Dave Taht, who broke his health solving the bufferbloat problem. > > Tell it to Patrick Volkerding, who sweated to created the first Linux > distribution - inventing a whole tier of infrastructure we now take > for granted - only to end up in deep financial trouble because other > people make all the money selling the CDs. > > Tell it to me, leading GIFLIB and GPSD and NTPsec and 48 other > projects and looking at having my life savings possibly wiped out by a > relatively low-grade medical problem because I'm not on anyone's > payroll. > > Tell it to Harlan Stenn, who worked on NTP for over a decade and could > barely get anyone to kick in enough money to buy coffee. > > If you do not understand the scope of this problem, you are *astoundingly* > ignorant. And probably alone on this list. > >> This needs governance and transparency around it. Just launching a page >> isn’t going to get you anywhere “sustsinable” > > Every loadsharer keeps control of their money at all times. Nobody is > makng decisions for them; the most the advisers can do is suggest > priorities. Everyting happens in public. How does it get more > transparent than that? > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> > >
