[Info-vax] OT: The New Face of HP

[Arne Vajhøj]

ChrisQ wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> A volunteer is doing what he/she consider useful and like to
>> do for fun.
>>
>> If you want him/her to do something your way and/or on your
>> schedule, then you will have to pay.
>>
>> Volunteers are only volunteering to do what they want to do
>> not what you want to do.
> 
> Agreed up to a point, but the open source movement is not about side 
> shuffling volunteer maintenance to your employer (third party) as paid 
> work. I would see that as a clear conflict of interest between the ethos 
> of open source and business.

Not really.

The idea of the first one needing a feature paying for it and all
the next getting it for free is a core philosophy in open source.

Arne