Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder
> Perspectives
[quote]
The need for committers
An employee’s position in the open source project is another key part of
his or her value to a firm. The organizational setup varies between open
source projects, but in some form, people always play user, contributor,
and committer roles.
[/quote]
http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2007/computer-2007.pdf
Yes, this is exactly what makes Free Software work.
> "That would be because we believe in Free Software and doing the
> right thing (a practice you appear to have given up on). Maybe it is
> time the term 'open source' also did the decent thing and died out
> with you."
>
> --Alan Cox to Eric Raymond
I guess not "Everybody Loves Eric Raymond":
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them-the-code
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K.
http://slated.org
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| technology, led them into it in the first place." ~ Douglas Adams
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