On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Philip Hands wrote:
> Great care needs to be taken when considering paying people to do things
> that they might otherwise do for the love of it.
>
> If you introduce a monetary incentive, and the work is then done by
> people who's primary motive is money, then wh
On 9/5/17, Philip Hands wrote:
> Great care needs to be taken when considering paying people to do things
> that they might otherwise do for the love of it.
>
> If you introduce a monetary incentive, and the work is then done by
> people who's primary motive is money, then while the volume of
> co
Neil Jansen writes:
...
> As far as commissioning software goes, I think that a lot of end-users
> of open-source software that don't necessarily program or contribute
> much would probably like that idea, if they had some sort of a system
> to organize those ideas. If it were a website, maybe i
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Jean Flamelle wrote:
>
> Essentially, the point of libre software is that anyone can change it
> to do what they want the program to do, and, if someone doesn't have
> the know-how, they can ask someone else.
The point of libre software is the freedom to do those t