On 17 Jan 2014, at 11:27, Frank Shearar <frank.shea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 January 2014 23:16, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 16 January 2014 21:15, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Le 16/01/2014 12:55, H. Hirzel a écrit : >>> >>>>>> “We are not payed to work on Squeak”, that is what I got told… >>>> >>>> Probably correct at that time... >>> >> This is usual attitude in corporate environment: you paying me to do the >> job, >> i do it and i don't care about the rest. Been there, ate that :) > > If I pay you to do X, and you spend all my money doing Y, you need a > very good story explaining why I don't get what I paid for. If I get paid to do X, based on an open-source platform that helps me tremendously, then it is only logical and ethical to give back and support that platform - it would even be in my own self interest. Big, hot US companies do this all the time for thousands of projects. > Seen in hindsight, everything is obvious. At the time it might have > been far from obvious. > > frank
