> There was one bit of news from CommunityOne (i.e. the JavaOne pre-show)
> that I thought might have interesting consequences for the OpenSolaris
> community. That was the proposal to pay open source developers for
> their work. That doesn't seem like a bad idea and I am wondering how
> such a thing would affect the community here.
This might be a good idea, but previous experiments in the Linux
community have not been universally successful.
Disgruntled Debian developers delay Etch:
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3128387759.html
The bounty system, on the other hand, has a track record of
working much better than hand-picked developers getting paid for
their work.
Venky.
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