ken mays <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joerg, > > Then, the solution is easy. People should offer him 'payable work' before > asking for HIS contributions.
I am sorry, I currently do not have the option to offer such a position. If I am able to aquire a project for FOKUS that is OpenSolaris based, things may be different. Before that happens, I may be able to hire a student that may partly work on SchilliX on internal fundings. Such a position would however not match Martins skills as I would also need to look at current official project activities in my group. > Martin asked for donations for his contribution - people have the freedom not > to pay him as well as not use his work. > We pay bills to get provided services - but no payment means no services. How > many established FOSS distro provides ask for > 'payment' for their supported distro versions made 98% from FOSS > contributions??? > > Some non-profit companies try to get funding since 'free work or trading' > comes with a high utility overhead bill. > > So if those asking for Martin's contributions won't make a donation to > support his work - why should he do it??? > > People in the USA get paid $80/day to flip hamburgers and less to > cut/trim/treat home lawns and wash vehicles... > > He could easily update distros to Xnv 1.12.4 for both Schillix and OI in 1-2 > days. Probably add in LibreOffice 4.1.3 and other software, > many things not 'maintained' consistently by most existing Illumos-based > distros. Oh, and port over the Xorg Intel/Radeon drivers. > > Many work projects 'not existing' today for OI or even Solaris 11.x. Many > good contributions. Everybody wins..... The main problem with the current OpenSolaris comunity is that there is close to no collaboration resulting in "wasted" effort.... Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/' _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
