Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/4/22 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/4/22 Ray Saintonge:
That's not entirely true. Very few people's livelihoods depends on it, but we do have some paid staff.
I'm glad to see you took the bait. :-)
Does the paid staff exist to support the volunteer project, or is it the other way around? When essentially volunteer organizations feel obliged to protect the jobs of their paid staff by promoting monopolistic practices they become anti-competitive. It's difficult to know when the line is crossed.
Of course it is that way around, no one would question that. If the paid staff are no longer required to achieve our goals then they will be made redundant, but that doesn't mean those staff aren't dependent on their jobs for their livelihoods (hopefully they wouldn't have too much difficultly finding new jobs, though).
I am sure that if Larry Sanger is reading this mailing list, you just made him wince.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen