>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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- > Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Eng. Simone Giannecchini President /CEO GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss