I agree with "there are tons of companies which are *exploiting* the GFOSS world itself, without giving anything or very little in return"
But I disagree with >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". Maybe people not working with OS may think that, but I think that people with some experience with OS thinks the opposite way. You need to have high-skilled abilities to understand core products in order to being able to adapt them, and that implies >= money than just using closed APIs. Jeroen, is the event definitely closed? Two collegues from Prodevelop wanted to assist, but they haven´t signed in the wiki. Miguel --------------------------------- Miguel Montesinos Director Técnico PRODEVELOP C/ Conde Salvatierra, 34 - 10 46004 Valencia. Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.prodevelop.es Tlf: +34 963510612 >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simone >Giannecchini >Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:24 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; OSGeo Discussions >Cc: gfoss >Subject: Re: [Gfoss] [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Last chance before >cancelling: OSGeoHacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!? > >>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 > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss