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Employed KDE developers...Employed KDE developers...Posted Aug 11, 2011 14:27 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)In reply to: Employed KDE developers... by aleXXX Parent article: Desktop Summit: Large companies and open source
I was kind of surprised by that remark of Dirk's as well. He said people were working on open source because they are paid for it; but even if I'm paid to work on free software, that's only because I was passionate enough about free software to make it my job, after many years of putting in an enormous amount of spare time
It almost sounds as if as soon you're paid for it, it stops being a passion and is done just for the money.
And even then... In the evenings and weekends I still work on open source as a volunteer, for Krita. So I am in both positions. How should I be counted? 0.5 volunteer, 0.5 corporate paid drone who accidentally works on free software?
I think this whole "don't think that open source is still an idealistic volunteer movement -- people are paid to do it!" idea is a fallacy. Even when it's said about the Linux kernel, but even more when it's said about a project like KDE.
Boudewijn (Krita maintainer since 2003, Calligra developer since 2003, KO GmbH founder since 2007 and paid to hack on Calligra among other things since 2009.)
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Employed KDE developers... Posted Aug 12, 2011 22:22 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] It almost sounds as if as soon you're paid for it, it stops being a passion and is done just for the money. I didn't get that from the (article's description of) the talk. I got, "as soon as you're paid for it, your opinion about how you should do it is a lot less relevant." Wouldn't you think that when a company pays hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for developers to work on an open source project that the company would expect to control what work those developers do? Dirk is saying if you want participation of a company's check book in an open source project, you should also plan for the company's participation in setting the project's direction. And he talks a little about how a business might move the project in different ways than a hobbyist/idealist would.
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