On 05/13/2016 07:06 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote:
I apologise if I had not expressed myself correctly. I do mean working
on some free software for money compared to working on KDE free software
for free. So, free software does matter, yet you can get (potentially
well-)paid in return elsewhere.
So it's down to making more useful/interesting stuff you can't work on
elsewhere, or fostering more employment opportunities around the stuff
we make. We've tried both, succeeded sometimes, failed sometimes; we'll
likely do more of both.
I'm actually not aware of any free software project similar to, say
Plasma with more paid developers, BTW ...
Speaking personally, I'm an experienced engineer who's worked on KDE
stuff both for free and for pay, each for years at a time, and I do it
because:
- It's really neat to go to sleep at night knowing what I do all day
doesn't screw anybody over.
- It's even neater to go to sleep at night knowing what I make can't
be easily erased/hidden from existence, and is trivially discoverable
as my calling card.
- Very few among the total population of software engineers get to
work on the types of products I work on, or with the level of input
I get into fashioning those products.
- What I make enables others and generally gives them more options.
- I'm very fond of the people I work with.
In this industry, it gets a hell of a lot worse almost always, and
rarely much better.
Cheers,
Eike
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