I dont work in open source because of my employer....
William Fleming · 2014-01-03T10:47:55.077000
I dont work in open source because of my employer. If anything my employer is against it. I do it in my own time.
I don’t work with open source software because of ...
William Fleming · 2014-01-03T10:49:27.292000
I don’t work with open source software because of my employer. That is a sweeping generalisation. Yes people are employed to do it, but there is a large community of people who choose to contribute without any financial backing.
I'd like to read his piece as saying "her...
Harry · 2014-01-03T10:58:03.468000
I'd like to read his piece as saying "here are things we should watch out for", rather than as saying "let's stop doing Kickstarters altogether". In PM terms, it's a risk register, not a failed business case. With that reading, I think he probably raises some sensible points about danger areas... Although, as you say, there may be an underlying tendency to look on open source with a slightly starry-eyed "no-one does it for the money" when, as you say, lots of people do.
I said "many," not "all". Of c...
Steve · 2014-01-03T11:29:17.587000
I said "many," not "all". Of course some people work on open source for the love of it - I am one of them. But it would be a mistake to assume that such people are in the majority, and corporations like IBM and Microsoft retain many people specifically to work on open source to achieve their various corporate goals.
I agree with you - I think he has been too close t...
PhilK · 2014-01-03T11:31:18.123000
I agree with you - I think he has been too close to one particular model, and he's missing the fact that it's healthy to experiment with new models, and that that those that won't work will fall by the wayside. Working in the traditional F/OSS way and using funding schemes are not mutually exclusive.
Perhaps more to the point, he's missing the clue in the name "Kickstarter" - if the problem (or at least a problem) in F/OSS is achieving critical mass for a project to be self-sustaining, it could be just what we need!
I don't like idea of many Kickstarter projects...
galuszkak · 2014-01-03T14:35:33.762000
I don't like idea of many Kickstarter projects, mostly because In my mind that doesn't fit into open source.
But movements like gittip.com, flattr, bountysource.com, paypal donations, helping foundations (like DSF, PSF etc) are much more desirable IMO. Why? Because one time funding which mostly ends with big amount of cash is not good in long term project perspectives. We should appreciate someone work also if he doesn't have time for marketing and PR stuff like on Kickstarter.
It's also about learning people to be responsible for some open source projects that really needs money (for example for infrastructure). Not every project can be only on github/bitbucket.
Well, many people have choose to write open source...
anatoly techtonik · 2014-02-02T11:35:31.744000
Well, many people have choose to write open source to share with the world, to chat with people and to have fun. Instead, they've being used by brain-rotten companies with commercial interests. I guess that's the idea behind the ecosystem.
I dont work in open source because of my employer....
William Fleming · 2014-01-03T10:47:55.077000
I dont work in open source because of my employer. If anything my employer is against it. I do it in my own time.I don’t work with open source software because of ...
William Fleming · 2014-01-03T10:49:27.292000
I don’t work with open source software because of my employer. That is a sweeping generalisation. Yes people are employed to do it, but there is a large community of people who choose to contribute without any financial backing.I'd like to read his piece as saying "her...
Harry · 2014-01-03T10:58:03.468000
I'd like to read his piece as saying "here are things we should watch out for", rather than as saying "let's stop doing Kickstarters altogether". In PM terms, it's a risk register, not a failed business case. With that reading, I think he probably raises some sensible points about danger areas... Although, as you say, there may be an underlying tendency to look on open source with a slightly starry-eyed "no-one does it for the money" when, as you say, lots of people do.I said "many," not "all". Of c...
Steve · 2014-01-03T11:29:17.587000
I said "many," not "all". Of course some people work on open source for the love of it - I am one of them. But it would be a mistake to assume that such people are in the majority, and corporations like IBM and Microsoft retain many people specifically to work on open source to achieve their various corporate goals.I agree with you - I think he has been too close t...
PhilK · 2014-01-03T11:31:18.123000
I agree with you - I think he has been too close to one particular model, and he's missing the fact that it's healthy to experiment with new models, and that that those that won't work will fall by the wayside. Working in the traditional F/OSS way and using funding schemes are not mutually exclusive.Perhaps more to the point, he's missing the clue in the name "Kickstarter" - if the problem (or at least a problem) in F/OSS is achieving critical mass for a project to be self-sustaining, it could be just what we need!
I don't like idea of many Kickstarter projects...
galuszkak · 2014-01-03T14:35:33.762000
I don't like idea of many Kickstarter projects, mostly because In my mind that doesn't fit into open source.But movements like gittip.com, flattr, bountysource.com, paypal donations, helping foundations (like DSF, PSF etc) are much more desirable IMO.
Why? Because one time funding which mostly ends with big amount of cash is not good in long term project perspectives. We should appreciate someone work also if he doesn't have time for marketing and PR stuff like on Kickstarter.
It's also about learning people to be responsible for some open source projects that really needs money (for example for infrastructure). Not every project can be only on github/bitbucket.
Well, many people have choose to write open source...
anatoly techtonik · 2014-02-02T11:35:31.744000
Well, many people have choose to write open source to share with the world, to chat with people and to have fun. Instead, they've being used by brain-rotten companies with commercial interests. I guess that's the idea behind the ecosystem.Page 1 of 1
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