Jason C. Wells wrote:
Something occured to me recently when I was listening the the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir sing Handel's Messiah the other day. There is no
shortage of top talent willing to perform some tasks for free. In this
particular case, one could argue that some of the very best in the world
are singing for free. Many musicians work for free in well established
orchestras, for example in Seattle where I paid money to hear Messiah.
It seems like the same is true for open source. There are some very
clever people right here in the FreeBSD community. Some are more widely
known (jkh, Watson, McKusick) than others but all of them are very
good. Some open source developers have turned their open source
involvement into a lucrative gig. But many remain volunteers.
Then you have situations like football here in the US or even football
as you call it everywhere else. There is no shortage of top talent in
these sports. These people command sizable incomes in this effort though.
So what's the difference? How do some fields of endeavor get top talent
for free and other fields of endeavor pay big bucks for the top talent?
Certainly we could find footballers to play on TV for free.
1] Love of the field of endeavor.
2] Idealism.
3] Knowing it's a pipe dream to get paid for it anyway.
My $0.02,
--
Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
-- Leo Rosten, on W.C. Fields
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