On 16 Nov 2007, at 06:41, Martin Bochnig wrote: > Because I have worked for them, rather than for myself. > Without any payment. > They have laid-off 70% of the former X11-Group (over the last three > years). It is just what I have said: Outsourcing, tricking dumb > persons like myself into free labor. Things like that. > If I cannot even come up with details of how this policy has > affected me, then what am I allowed to do at all? To work for > nothing and then keep my mouth shut?
At the end of the day, there's only one person responsible for your finances and that's you. Unless Sun made you some specific promise conditional on doing this work, then you're just like the vast majority of other open source developers out there, doing useful work, voluntarily, on your own time. Which means you need some other source of income and it's up to you to find that. > Oh yeah, let me have some fun, hear some beautiful relaxing music, > go to the doc. > Then I will awake in a paradise and will have some black numbers on > my banking accounts, even if it was only a '0'. You shouldn't be quite so dismissive of people's advice. I don't know about the setup in Germany, but in the UK for example every Students Union has debt counsellors who can help to deal with these situations... You're not the first student who got into debt problems. They can usually help you to deal with banks, who at the end of the day are more interested in seeing some kind of plan where they will (eventually) get their money back than seeing you put in jail or declared bankrupt. There may be other organisations that can help too (over here we have the Citizens Advice Bureau who can help with these kinds of issues). You certainly need to take some practical steps NOW to deal with the situation, even if it means getting a job in a bar so you can show your bank you have *some* income. You may think Sun have a moral duty to pay you - I can't comment on that as I don't work for Sun and don't know the background - but even if they do, it sounds like it won't be soon enough to help you. Good luck, Pete.
