[Gfoss] [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Last chance before cancelling: OSGeoHacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

[Miguel Montesinos]

I agree with "there are tons of companies which are *exploiting* the GFOSS world itself, without giving anything or very little in return"

But I disagree with

>There are also other companies that strongly believe that an OS 
>developer should ask for less money than any other non OS 
>developers, or no money at all, because "he does that for the 
>community".

Maybe people not working with OS may think that, but I think that people with some experience with OS thinks the opposite way. You need to have high-skilled abilities to understand core products in order to being able to adapt them, and that implies >= money than just using closed APIs.

Jeroen, is the event definitely closed? Two collegues from Prodevelop wanted to assist, but they haven´t signed in the wiki.

Miguel


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>[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Simone 
>Giannecchini
>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:24 AM
>To: cavallini at faunalia.it; OSGeo Discussions
>Cc: gfoss
>Subject: Re: [Gfoss] [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Last chance before 
>cancelling: OSGeoHacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?
>
>>From my limited experience I can say that the number of GFOSS
>developers is not small, not at all; the problem is that GFOSS 
>developers usually are quiet because they spend all the time 
>they have coding GFOSS software hence talking about what they 
>do is often considered a waste time (I am not supporting this 
>statement but that's what I have heard often..). I guess that, 
>to some extent, this is true for *any* software developer...
>
>IMHO, the limiting factor of the GFOSS is that there are tons 
>of companies which are *exploiting* the GFOSS world itself, 
>without giving anything or very little in return (IMHO saying 
>"we use GFOSS software so we support it" is not the best form 
>of support, but then again, it's a personal opinion). There 
>are also other companies that strongly believe that an OS 
>developer should ask for less money than any other non OS 
>developers, or no money at all, because "he does that for the 
>community".
>
>I think that the ongoing discussion on Service Provider 
>Prioritization should try to address these issues somehow.
>
>Simone.
>
>
>On Feb 12, 2008 6:31 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>> Simone Giannecchini ha scritto:
>> > Could you please explain what you mean to a "poor" OS developer?
>>
>> My feeling is that the number of available developers is small, and 
>> cannot be easily raised by reasonable amounts of money (ok, with 12 
>> MEUR that's different...). I think there's an "availability 
>pit": you 
>> can find some productive developers willing to work for free/limited 
>> additional resources/based on their own resources, you can also find
>> (many?) productive developers if you have lots of money, but in the 
>> middle there is a gap, so transition is not smooth.
>> It would be nice to model all this in a more formal way (I'm a 
>> behavioural ecologist, after all...), but now these are just 
>thoughts, 
>> less than hypotheses.
>> All the best.
>>
>> pc
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