]] Michael Gilbert Hi,
| On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:27:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > You don't think so. I do. One of the reasons is it puts a, IMO too | > low value on other, similar work, so by taking petty donations for | > small pieces of work, you are lowering the value of my work too. | > Lowering the value of the work your codevelopers are doing is, IMO, | > rude. I realise that's not the intention of asking for money, but | > the effect is there. | | How can you possibly reduce the monetary value of volunteer work? Or | more inquisitively, how is it even feasible to assign a price to such | work in the first place? I did not write monetary value, I wrote value. By not assigning a monetary value to the work, it gets valued by its usefulness (or prettyness or whatever). Once you assign a monetary value to it, the non-monetary value gets in the background because people will use the monetary value as a proxy for its non-monetary value. Let me make a simile, which like all similes are not perfect, but might get my point across, since it seems people find it hard to understand: Assume you are helping a friend move house. They offer you €2 for the work. Would you be happy? I'd be insulted, since what they're doing is assigning a very low value on your work, rather than just saying «Thanks a lot for the help» afterwards. If they just said «Thank you», the value they put on your work and thereby how appreciated you feel will be higher. | […] According to your argument, all of Debian's volunteers are doing | the world a major disservice in actively preventing a potential $13 | billion in revenue from infusing into the economy. How cruel!? I'm not sure how you got to that conclusion at all. Also, I would believe a fair amount of the upstream (and Debian) development is done by people paid to do that work, so surely that number should be smaller. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aald8yyh....@qurzaw.linpro.no
