Money or nothing? Trade-offs in FOSS compensation
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| What happens when a free and open source software (FOSS) project
| attempts to introduce compensation for its developers? Because FOSS
| remains based largely on volunteer work, many worry that payment
| might demotivate both those who receive it and those who do not.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/203207&from=rss
Never worked for Debian. Only ruined everything. And yes, Novell just took
the money and betrayed GNU developers, exposing them to limitation and
allowing Microsoft to collect (through secret extortions) money exctrated
from GNU utilities (and bogus IP).
Linux Community Still Outraged by Novell Pact
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| Leaders of the open source movement are at work on a legal strategy
| that could let Novell retain the benefits of the deal, while
| preventing Microsoft from using it to attack other open source firms.
| They're drafting a new version of the General Public License or GPL,
| the Free Software Foundation's legal rulebook, which governs how
| Linux and other open source code can be used.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/kwJz51E8kKkqhI/Linux-Community-Still-Outraged-by-Novell-Pact.xhtml
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