On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, at 04:04, Andre Klapper wrote: > > programming should be a hobby, like editing articles > > Free Software definitions don't imply that you shall not take money for > your work, or eventually even make a living on it. It's part of the > personal freedom that everybody has. However, nobody stops you from > living your ideals of keeping programming a "hobby only". :) > > Cheers, > andre > -- > Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler > http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
I feel that having development carried out by "employees" hinders programming the same software as a hobby: for instance, they work in a single language, and don't need localised documentation there are other (which i haven't shaped properly yet) differences of architecture of comminity-run tech projects and tech projects run by employees, which make getting involved as a hobby harder for instance, i could not make a difference to a big linux distro run by a corporation (or using one as an upstream) which is why I'm not very supportive of any plans that involve more employees at WMF Engineering either I hope this way to put it is slightly more clear than it was before svetlana _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
