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
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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