New proposed top level FAQ for the defunct FedoraLegacy project

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 09 February 2007 15:14, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> > Without motivation like a paycheck, it is difficult to get people
> > interested in doing the work.
>
> This is the same as saying Opensource can't work...  Freeware will never
> catch on...  Altruism doesn't exist.  People only do things for money...
> These are not true, unless applied to specific individuals rather than
> as a generality.

No, it's not the same.  Opensource works because a lot of people like working 
on creating new code and improving existing code.  Maintaining old code is 
just not fun/glamorous work.  The majority of work done in this area of 
opensource is done by paid engineers, and what isn't done by paid engineers 
is most often based on what paid engineers are doing.

-- 
Jesse Keating RHCE      (geek.j2solutions.net)
Fedora Legacy Team      (www.fedoralegacy.org)
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