[openbeos] Re: Hiring Programmers

On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 22:55:49 -0500, Michael Phipps wote:

> Another *POSSIBILITY* is that the source remains free, but rolled 
> distros could be sold. 
>I know that at first this sounds contrary to "Open Source", after all, 
> everybody makes 
>.iso's available. But there is nothing that requires that an OSS group 
> do so.

This is increasingly happening in the Linux world with distros like 
Lycoris and Lindows AFAIK. 

 Sure, if you want to d/l the source and build it yourself, it is free. 
If not, you pay us N dollars. This is just a possibility. Something 
that we, the admin team, haven't discussed but that I would like 
opinions on

The problem with this is that it will only be viable when you release 
V2 of OBOS. Why should I pay you for V1 when it is functionally the 
same as BeOS R5, which I can still get for nothing? Yes, good karma and 
all that, but that will only work with the real fanatics (like us). I 
assume that we want to spread OBOS to the huddled masses ...

And Yellowtab (or someone like them) can legally take your code, 
compile it and try to undercut you on price or feature sets, if I 
understand your license correctly.
 
>As far as people who are donating their time now and how they would 
> feel about people being hired? 
>Well, not one person has complained to me so far, honestly. And I 
> would very strongly consider 
>someone who is donating time and doing a good job over someone "off 
> the street", were there 
>to be openings. 

Agreed

>I know that personally, I would love to quit my day job and code OBOS 
> full time. But this is not about getting me out >of my job. This is 
about getting the project done (well, a release out, anyway).

Why, just when we thought Michael was going into radio fulltime ...<g>

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