-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/2011 03:36 PM, Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > They don't become evil, but money as incentive will negatively > affect their motivation. There are scientific studies, which show, > that this kind of extrinsic motivation actually leads to worse > results than doing it without this incentive. > Do you really believe that the numbers of requests and amounts of money involved would change the motivation of our developers? It seems to me that one of the chief demotivators is the feeling that people whine over little things that don't really matter. If someone is willing to "put their money where there mouth is" it must be important to them, which may indeed motivate the developer, and recognition in the community would be no less for that. It would still be the developer's decision as to whether it is in his project's best interest to have this feature - useful only for a few is one thing, but harmful to others would still be rejected.
> If you do something because of money, and especially if it's little > money, you won't do it with the same passion, and quality, as if > you do it because you care, because you see a purpose, because it > challenges your skills, because you get recognition in the > community. Devil's advocate - FOSS is free and worth every penny you pay for it! Seriously, much research shows that once you have enough money to eat and pay the bills, it isn't itself much of a motivator. I'd say that the real motivator is showing how important the feature is to the requester. Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6BnEQACgkQj93fyh4cnBc4MACbBPnIYKptbq1TcPN2PBwLK/1b R3kAn1e9PkObh2VFqrPC6zbCN0upyRbw =Aw4d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
