Are you working for free?
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With the advent of the open source “community”, we have gone from cheap, outsourced development to completely free development. Let’s look at what is happening at google with the Chromium project. http://blog.chromium.org/2009/06/plausible-promise.html[^] Open source projects aren't simply about a runnable binary, they're about the community of users, testers, and developers who devote their time and skills to working on a product they believe in. The last time I looked, google wasn't a charity. How many people donate their time and skills to working for Ford on a car they believe in? From http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit[^] In one TGIF in Kirkland, an employee informed Eric Schmidt that Microsoft’s benefits package was richer. He announced himself genuinely surprised, which genuinely surprised me. Schmidt, in the presence of witnesses, promised to bring the benefits to a par. He consulted HR, and HR informed him that it’d cost Google 22 million a year to do that. So he abandoned the promise and fell back on his tired, familiar standby (”People don’t work at Google for the money. They work at Google because they want to change the world!”). A statement that always seemed to me a little Louis XIV coming from a billionaire. Mr. Schmidt is truly brilliant – the pied piper of software development. He has made billions, and now has conned the “community” of sandal-clad geeks into working for him for free. Thank God we have people like Mr. Schmidt who will make the personal sacrifice to take on all of those headaches that come with being rich. As George Orwell said, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Capitalism has been criticized as the little guy making the big guy rich. Well, no one is forcing these people to work for free -- but SHIT.
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With the advent of the open source “community”, we have gone from cheap, outsourced development to completely free development. Let’s look at what is happening at google with the Chromium project. http://blog.chromium.org/2009/06/plausible-promise.html[^] Open source projects aren't simply about a runnable binary, they're about the community of users, testers, and developers who devote their time and skills to working on a product they believe in. The last time I looked, google wasn't a charity. How many people donate their time and skills to working for Ford on a car they believe in? From http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit[^] In one TGIF in Kirkland, an employee informed Eric Schmidt that Microsoft’s benefits package was richer. He announced himself genuinely surprised, which genuinely surprised me. Schmidt, in the presence of witnesses, promised to bring the benefits to a par. He consulted HR, and HR informed him that it’d cost Google 22 million a year to do that. So he abandoned the promise and fell back on his tired, familiar standby (”People don’t work at Google for the money. They work at Google because they want to change the world!”). A statement that always seemed to me a little Louis XIV coming from a billionaire. Mr. Schmidt is truly brilliant – the pied piper of software development. He has made billions, and now has conned the “community” of sandal-clad geeks into working for him for free. Thank God we have people like Mr. Schmidt who will make the personal sacrifice to take on all of those headaches that come with being rich. As George Orwell said, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Capitalism has been criticized as the little guy making the big guy rich. Well, no one is forcing these people to work for free -- but SHIT.
yeah, the people who advocate open source as the panacea, obviously have enough money that they don't need to work.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums. I can do things with my brain that I can't even google. I can flex the front part of my brain instantly anytime I want. It can be exhausting and it even causes me vision problems for some reason. - CaptainSeeSharp
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With the advent of the open source “community”, we have gone from cheap, outsourced development to completely free development. Let’s look at what is happening at google with the Chromium project. http://blog.chromium.org/2009/06/plausible-promise.html[^] Open source projects aren't simply about a runnable binary, they're about the community of users, testers, and developers who devote their time and skills to working on a product they believe in. The last time I looked, google wasn't a charity. How many people donate their time and skills to working for Ford on a car they believe in? From http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit[^] In one TGIF in Kirkland, an employee informed Eric Schmidt that Microsoft’s benefits package was richer. He announced himself genuinely surprised, which genuinely surprised me. Schmidt, in the presence of witnesses, promised to bring the benefits to a par. He consulted HR, and HR informed him that it’d cost Google 22 million a year to do that. So he abandoned the promise and fell back on his tired, familiar standby (”People don’t work at Google for the money. They work at Google because they want to change the world!”). A statement that always seemed to me a little Louis XIV coming from a billionaire. Mr. Schmidt is truly brilliant – the pied piper of software development. He has made billions, and now has conned the “community” of sandal-clad geeks into working for him for free. Thank God we have people like Mr. Schmidt who will make the personal sacrifice to take on all of those headaches that come with being rich. As George Orwell said, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Capitalism has been criticized as the little guy making the big guy rich. Well, no one is forcing these people to work for free -- but SHIT.