On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:03:38PM +0100, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > The GNOME developers mentioned in this thread are employed by Novell > which means they work for Novell and not for the community. I think, > Novell decides about the projects for those developers and what they > are allowed to do and develop. If Novell is a good employer, then > those developers can make proposals for reasonable projects, or they > even have the right to make decisions on their own within their > assigned area of responsibility. Of course, they should receive some > feedback from the users and the community (a programmer/developer > always needs some feedback!), but Novell (the employer) is still the > top priority. And the developers have to account for their work.
They are employees, not slaves. So if they follow the community that they make the software for is just a logical step. Wether or not they are allowed to do what that community wants is another matter. But then again they might be more interested in following a specific GNOME list. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > > Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
