I send this to a friend of mine who is actually looking for a new project. It would boost lcnc in my opinion if we had someone being lead who is not working for free. I mean the users are earning money with the software, why shouldn't those who build it?
Yours Julian On 14 June 2020 13:38:16 CEST, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 12:23, Rod Webster <r...@vmn.com.au> wrote: > >> Thats not necessarily true. What sets this project apart from many >other >> open source applications is that its 100% voluntariness. Most other >open >> source projects I've been associated with have a revenue stream from >> commercial activities. > >Octoprint is an interesting case there, Patreon allows Gina to work on >it as a full-time job. > >Money has been discussed in the context of LinuxCNC in the past. >Nobody has ever wanted to be the one who decides how it is spent. > >There have been occasions when someone has paid a specific coder to do >a specific project on LinuxCNC. Tormach paid for some stuff, for >example. >(But the developer they used wasn't one of the main developers, he >might even have been new to the project, it was a while ago) > >-- >atp >"A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is >designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and >lunatics." >— George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > >_______________________________________________ >Emc-developers mailing list >Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Pinneberg Julian Wingert Subtilitas Consulting Holstenstr. 25 25421 Pinneberg Phone: 0170/4516094 FAX: 03212-1479681 Mail: julian.wing...@subtilitas.de USt-IdNr.: DE272503212 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers