Am 31.07.2010 19:16, schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:22:00 pm Florian Klämpfl wrote:
I think you miss one important point here: to contribute to an OSS project one must be rather idealistic or even religious about it (yes, this includes me ;)).
"Must"?
"One" in the sense of person obviously and contribute in the sense of coding or why should one code for free? How much time did you spend so far in writing OSS?
That's probably why Microsoft agreed to match Jeff Atwood's donation of $5000 to support OSS Dot-Net development. Microsoft is famous for being idealistic and religious about open source.
And? $10000 is nothing. This approximately is what a senior software developer/architect with PhD./Master/Dipl.-Inf./Dpl.-Ing. costs a company per month.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/supporting-open-source-projects-in-...
Not to mention idealistic and religious companies like Fujitsu, HP, Skype, to mention just a few...