On 17 Jan 2014, at 11:27, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 January 2014 23:16, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 January 2014 21:15, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernandes@gmail.com> wrote:
Le 16/01/2014 12:55, H. Hirzel a écrit :
âWe are not payed to work on Squeakâ, that is what I got toldâ¦
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