Hello,

I've been meaning to send this email for a couple of months now..so here goes.

An earlier email about my trip to the Ohio LinuxFest this past September.

There was something that came up a few times during my visit there that merits being passed along to this list, IMO - if it had come from one person I would dismiss it, but this happened maybe a half dozen times - one representative exchange.

Hi
Howdy
So you work on any FOSS project.
I volunteer a little for OpenOffice.org. (That is exactly how I said that EACH time)
Oh - I wish I could get paid to work on a FOSS project!

OK, now when I was speaking with folks, say from a Linux magazine or one of the big money FOSS companies - they did not have this misconception, but more often then not when I was speaking with 'just a guy (or gal)' this was exactly what they thought.

1 OpenOffice.org = Sun Microsystems
2 Everyone who works on the project is paid staff.

Just passing it along, for whatever it's worth.

Drew







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