David Gerard wrote:
(I'm interested in terms of comparisons to ideas
like bounty systems, which
are widely advocated but I've never seen actually being very functional.
I'm suspecting the way to get lots of good work out of a hacker is to make
it an actual job then trust them to do it. This requires picking one's
hacker carefully.)
I can say that at least so far, from my side, my relationship with Brion
hasn't changed much at all. I barely know what he's doing, and miracles
happen on a regular basis, and I like it. :-)
The main difference in what he's actually doing _so far at least_ has
been that Brion is liasoning with some people who are interested in
paying for access to a live feed of the database as a service, which he
would have done before only if it was really interesting, which it
probably isn't.
--Jimbo