Brian Gupta wrote:
> I don't know that there are as many
> "open source" artists, do you?
Have you been to Creative Commons lately? Wikipedia? Flickr? I don't
write code, but I write words in blogs and presentations and I take
thousands of photos and I give all of it away under the CC license. And
the last I checked, I'm not the only one.
Well? Was someone paid to design the Linux Penguin logos? (No)
I think that with a community of approximately 60,000 people, you
would be able to find at least one artist. (Possibly 100s)
The "60,000" number has been artificially inflated and as an
indication of what it really means, at a recent meeting inside Sun,
we were encouraged to sign up pets, family members (mothers,
fathers, grandparents, etc) to increase the numbers so that we
actually reached that milestone. Sounds to me like someone's
bonus is dependent on that number being reached.
Signing people up like that doesn't create "community members"
who are productive and interactive, it just creates a higher number
for the purpose of statistical counting.
I'm tempted to make some overgeneralisation about America and
how "quantity" is seen by many to be more important than "quality"
and all the evils that go with that.
Darren
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