John Draper wrote: > I remember a few years ago, I posted something like this to the list, > and got flamed 6 ways from Sunday for having the audacity to propose > this.
certain people think that the mere thought of getting paid for contributing to freely available software is outrageously immoral... > 50 Euros/hour is a very good rate by the way.. if more consultants > would offer their services this inexpensively, then perhaps it might even > be competitive with outsourcing. not sure about that, though: increasingly, outsourcing means paying someone to sign up for a hotmail account and keep sending increasingly annoying mails to fredrik lundh until he gives up and points to some ready-made code that might solve the customer's problem (if I had a dollar for every such mail etc etc). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
