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Who's writing 2.6.21 and related issuesWho's writing 2.6.21 and related issuesPosted Mar 8, 2007 10:11 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)Parent article: Who's writing 2.6.21 and related issues
The employers who consider that appearing far up the affiliation list to be important seem to me to be missing the point. It's not the employers who do the work: it's the *people*.
(This seems to be a mistake made by nontechnical managers really quite a lot, presumably because otherwise it would be plain that they weren't actually doing any productive work. ;} ;} )
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Do employers deserve any credit? Posted Mar 8, 2007 14:12 UTC (Thu) by kevinbsmith (guest, #4778) [Link] Sure, the people do the work. But many of them could not (or would not) do that work if the employers weren't paying them to do so. Those employers are contributing significant value to the system, and deserve some kind of credit. (I realize that they have "selfish" reasons for contributing, but then that's true for most if not all individuals as well.)
By appearing higher on the list, employers may be able to attract better talent, and make some extra sales, not to mention boosting their stock value a bit. I don't think they are missing the point at all.
Who's writing 2.6.21 and related issues Posted Mar 8, 2007 14:24 UTC (Thu) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048) [Link] Well, managers and employers don't do anything useful, except paying the bills... ...which for developers that don't like messing with business issues (because only writing code is funny, and "productive"), can be a real godsend!
In other words, the article contains two separate contribution tables:
by developer, and by employer.
And this comes from a developer, who strongly feels that writing
code is the real thing, and managing layers are typically
mostly useless overhead.
Who's writing 2.6.21 and related issues Posted Mar 8, 2007 22:52 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (In case anyone wonders, my tongue was so far in my cheek when I wrotethat that I'm surprised it didn't pop through. :) )
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