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Projects and managing their donations

Projects and managing their donations

Posted May 19, 2011 19:41 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Projects and managing their donations by sorpigal
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

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?


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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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