On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Leonard Ritter wrote:
from http://www.leonard-ritter.com/donations_or_sponsoring
I keep bouncing an idea in my head, thinking about how to strengthen the
bonding between open source software developers and software users.
Possibly old news, but in case you haven't read this yet, Luis Villa has
some excellent insights on the topic -- and especially the point that
paying volunteers can have a counter-intuitive effect:
http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/06/18/crowding-out-of-intrinsic-motivations-aka-the-bounty-problem/
This is not to say the idea is bad, quite the opposite. It's just it seems
to be really hard to find a sustainable balance.
--
links, my public keys, etc at http://eca.cx/kv
