Am 17.01.2014 um 11:49 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>:
> > 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. > + [a high number] Norbert > 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
