[Info-vax] Ada on VMS, was: Re: Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/21/2018 11:09 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 7:31:28 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Most non-paid open source contributors have a job (or
>> are studying) as their main occupation and are developing
>> open source in their spare time.
> 
> No. While a token few OpenSource projects result from thesis work (as
> they should) most OpenSource contributors these days __have__ to fix
> something because it interferes with their job. I have fixed lots of
> things in Qt over the years because it blocked what I needed to do at
> a client site. In many cases those clients knowingly ended up with a
> one-off of Qt, not really, but effectively because their project was
> now a mish-mash of their own code and a patch for Qt which "should"
> go away if the patch ever got rolled into a new version.
"their job"

> I have a friend who works on Linux kernel stuff and is good friends
> with Linus himself. His full time job is creating BSP for custom
> boards. As of our last conversation the bulk of his contributions
> have been stemming from things which block him from doing his day
> job. It is not out of the good of his heart or for some need to have
> ego stroked. It is because he _had_ to fix it and is still friends
> with Linus, so he submits it.
"his day job"

If we assume that they get paid for their job then they get paid
for making these changes.

Arne