esmaspäev, 15. veebruar 2016 14:32.00 UTC kirjutas Nathann Cohen:
...
I care about average users, as I showed it repeatedly in the past. I
just don't want to work for free for a guy who sells a software,
that's all.
...
I do not know exactly Your case, nor do I know the arrangement between You
and the "Williams". As of the writing of this comment, I do not know
anything about the "Williams" either, but I as a person, who is born in
1981 Soviet Estonia and have seen the communist regime at my early
childhood first hand have the following 3 observations about the comments
in this thread:
A)
If You and the "William" are working in the same team so that he is Your
boss and You get paid peanuts while he goes away with Big Money, then the
right thing for You to do is ask for a compensation raise so that the
monetary arrangement is such that You can forget the whole money issue and
focus on the actual work. I suggest that You do not ask for a "salary
increase" but ask for a percentage of the revenue, because in good times it
pays You more and in bad times it will not financially wreck the "Williams"
by forcing him to pay You considerable amount of money during a period,
when the money is not coming in, sales are low. The percentage arrangement
also helps to ease his mind about the thoughts that how is he ever going to
pay You during low sales and removes the financial reason for him to pay
You relatively low wage during high sales, because in case of constant wage
he has to save up money during high sales to pay the constant wage during
low sales. If he does not agree to the percentage based arrangement, then
it's time to leave the team and the Sage project might have nothing to do
with the relation between You and the "Williams".
B)
You are probably using Linux as free software to earn money Yourself by
working at the University and other places. If the University is using Sage
at its research and courses and is charging students for tuition fees, then
clearly the University, including You, are earning money by using the free
work of others. Therefore, You have lost the argument against "Williams".
C)
There is the notion that people, who want to earn money just join forces to
reduce some of their costs to the point that new business opportunities
come available to all parties. Back in the steam engines era a steam engine
based machine, a tractor, a crops processor, etc. cost a lot of money. In
Estonia it was common that farmers joined forces to buy a common machine
and that machine was used by everyone. Clearly different farmers could sell
the crops at different prices, depending on their marketing ability, but
that was no reason for a farmer, who was worse at sales, to boycott the
mutually beneficial effort. As a matter of fact at Hiiumaa
https://www.google.com/maps/@58.9008737,22.6498058,10z
an island, where I spent all my summers during my early childhood, it was
common that people voluntarily helped each-other out at building/renovating
houses and gathering hay for cows. The custom was that nobody paid any
money for the work, nobody measured working hours or the amount of work
done, but rather it was a hard but somewhat fun social event, where people
came together, did the work and at the end of the day, depending on the
length of the work day also during the day, the host served everyone who
came to help him/her a fine meal. People just understood that to get
anything done in the village, some times more workers are needed. That was
NOT any kind of a communist thing, but just plain cooperation and
understanding that to survive the economic situation people just needed to
do something about their situation, either the locals help themselves and
their neighbors or everyone is economically far worse off.
I see the same thing in open source software movement. The end client could
not care less, what goes into the solution that he orders, but the parties,
who need to deliver the software, have terrible costs at getting the
totally non-sellable, technically complex, parts done. Hence the idea that
what if we just reduce our costs by reusing each-others work at our
products. With that in mind I have made the most extensive parts of my
creations available under BSD-license, which allows everybody to use it
even in closed source software without paying me anything. I find that this
is my way to make my world a better place and if some people find my work
to be that good that they can squeeze some extra money out of it, then the
merrier, not to mention that it's such a fine advertisement to my
consultancy services that I could never buy it even if I had tons of money.
So, I kind of have a mixed view about the posts in this thread.
Thank You for reading my comment.
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