On 9/5/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Well, this is the same self-justifying drivel
we've seen from
professional photographers grumbling about the existence of free photos
and Robert McHenry dissing WP itself. The best part is the attempt to
suggest that it's somehow unethical to work for free, ha ha ha. I don't
think we want any participants who think of the very concept of WP as
fundamentally wrongheaded!
Some of the criticisms are more intelligent, though; they accept the
validity of working for free (as they point out, pro bono work has
been done by professionals forever), but they are down on contests;
the point being all the wasted effort. It's one thing to work for
free if your work is going to be used, it's another to work for free
for your work to be thrown out.
Personally I think the amount of crap that a designer would have to
take from fractious Wikipedians deserves pay. No matter what changes
get proposed, someone loud is going to hate it.
-Matt