On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:25:31PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 07/23/2013 11:02 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>you claimed more than once that they are a less woth part of the community
>because they get paid for their work and are not completly free in their
>doings
Yes not because they work for Red Hat but because I value people
dedicating and invest their free time to the project more then I
value people that get paid to work on Fedora and are doing so on
corporate time and those individuals usually leave the project while
they either change jobs within their company or in case of Red Hat
leave when they stop working for Red Hat.
<snip>
You might find that's not the case in a lot of instances. Red Hat
employees are generally hired because they were a part of a project in
the first place and were valuable enough to be paid to continue their
work, allowing them to devote more than just spare time to the task.
Full disclosure: *I* work for Red Hat. I'm paid to work on the code for
a couple package that I also happen to maintain in Fedora. I also manage
several other packages, and work upstream with the coders, that are
totally unrelated to my job but are things for which I have a passion.
And there are many, many other Red Hat employees that do the same.
--
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