> People get paid every day to develop free software. > Google and Mozilla pay Firefox developers, Red Hat > and Novell pay Linux app developers. Many of these > developers worked for free previously and were > pulled into the corporate fold to continue or expand > upon their work. > > So I don't think paying even more people to develop > free software will cause the unpaid to stop what > they're doing. Those unpaid people are getting > something out of their work that isn't negated by > others being paid cash money.
IF Sun was still swimming in cash, then there could be some extra money to hire addtitional developers. But neither is the case. Study the material, if you're so good in economics. Sun even had to made quite a risky deal recently, just to get 700Mio USD of fluent cash. > > As for who would pay a bounty, the answer is "anyone > who has the desire and the means to". That's just > basic economics :) RHT? MSFT? IBM?? No thanks, I'm happy that Solaris is _not_ longer exclusively dependant on pure economics, since June 14th. Economy-only-driven folks destroy everything worthwhile, everything. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
