Russ Allbery: > Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> writes: > >> My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most >> difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial one. > > I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would expect to be the > most controversial is that, once Debian starts spending project money to > pay people to do work that other people in the project are doing for free, > the project is doing a form of picking winners and losers. We're deciding > as a project that some people's work is valuable enough to pay for and (by > omission if nothing else) other people's work is not, and for all the good > intentions that we have going in, there are so many ways for this to go > poorly. >
A lot of people are already paid full-time to work on Debian. Wouldn't it be better to additionally have some other people be paid full-time to work on Debian under a democratic mandate (our voting system) rather than under corporate orders? At the very least, it would be a good social experiment to gain insight from - something like that hasn't not been done much in the world before. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
