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Projects and managing their donationsProjects and managing their donationsPosted May 19, 2011 19:03 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)In reply to: Projects and managing their donations by pboddie Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
Don't forget resentment. If we're all donating our time we're all equal. If some of us are paid to join the community, fine. If some volunteers begin to be paid by the project, but not others, then that's a recipe for trouble, infighting, etc.
Maybe feature bounties is the right way to go, but I've never seen that work well for unsexy work.
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Projects and managing their donations Posted May 19, 2011 19:41 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
do does that mean that companies should never pay people to work on open source projects?
or does it mean that if anyone working on a project is getting paid that people who aren't getting paid shouldn't contribute?
Projects and managing their donations Posted May 20, 2011 0:22 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
It just means that there are complex issues with motivations at play when the profit motive is introduced or already established within a community.
Google's model of introducing monetary motivation seems to be working well, at least from an outsider's point of view.
This is getting off-topic though, we need a separate article.
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