2009/4/22 Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>et>:
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