On 17/12/16 20:36, Carsten Agger wrote: > > > On 12/17/2016 08:29 PM, Charles Cossé wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Pocock >> <<mailto:dan...@pocock.pro>dan...@pocock.pro> wrote: >> >> >> If you own an apartment in a building with elevators, you have to pay >> service charges to the company that maintains it. >> >> With all due respect, where's the motivation for the poor bugger who >> writes the free software? I believe that there is still something >> missing from this equation. > > The software developer would normally be paid by the hour to produce > free software for industrial use. > > That's what my company does, anyway, even if we don't make software for > elevators or embedded systems in general. > > >> So it's okay to pay the company to maintain the elevator but not the >> software developer? Where's the motivation for the software developer? > > ... to maintain the elevator, and as part of that, the software. The > developer's motivation would be the paycheck. Payment by invoiceable > hours is a standard business model for free software developers. Support > contracts are too. >
Did anything in my original email suggest the developer would not be paid? _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
