On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:28, Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> wrote: > ]] 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.
Would you feel better if the friend offered €1000? €10k? If Raphael made €10k/month (instead of €15), would your response be different? What's your problem actually? I'm losing track here (IE, I don't know what your point is). -- blog: http://tshepang.tumblr.com -- 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/aanlktim5=okaefgndntc-dq6zni0zzcwx05a68_rj...@mail.gmail.com
