New proposed top level FAQ for the defunct FedoraLegacy project
Eric Rostetter
rostetter at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Feb 9 20:32:34 UTC 2007
Quoting Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>:
> No, it's not the same. Opensource works because a lot of people like working
> on creating new code and improving existing code. Maintaining old code is
> just not fun/glamorous work.
Yet people do it without a paycheck. Why? Either because they have a
self-interest in it besides a paycheck, or they want the fame, or they
want to help others, or some other equally foolish reason. The point
is, people will do it without a paycheck if it is important to them.
> The majority of work done in this area of
> opensource is done by paid engineers
Yes, but that doesn't mean the minority should be ignored.
> and what isn't done by paid engineers
> is most often based on what paid engineers are doing.
In certain types of projects, yes. (That was the way FL was run,
since it was coding into the project that it was to be done that
way).
> --
> Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net)
> Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org)
> GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub)
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Eric Rostetter
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The University of Texas at Austin
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