Comment What about quality? (Score 1) 365
Not sure this has been discussed, but when software is put out by usually open sourcers, they take pride and work to make good quality software.
Bring unaccountable money to the table and not only with the above probably start slacking, but will bring every tom, dick and harry that can write something that compiles out of the woodwork If all I have to do to get a grant from the government is produce XXX lines of code, well that's an afternoon, it will do something, but lord knows it probably will be a POS. How is that useful or beneficially to the FOSS projects?
Another aspect is the perception that OSS is socialistic. From what I can tell, most projects are actually closer to what would be called a monarchy as far as approval processes and direction. The reason it works so well is that a good monarchy (where those in charge are actually looking to the benefits of all and just aren't power hungry people looking to buy votes) is the most stable and beneficial long term arrangement.
Bring the government into this type of arrangement and your gonna start having quotas on who can contribute to a project, complaints and even lawsuits because if some really bad coder can't get his stuff in and thus can't get paid, he's going to say that the project leaders are just biased.
I realize this is chain of thought, but would like to get some of these concepts out there.
Bring unaccountable money to the table and not only with the above probably start slacking, but will bring every tom, dick and harry that can write something that compiles out of the woodwork If all I have to do to get a grant from the government is produce XXX lines of code, well that's an afternoon, it will do something, but lord knows it probably will be a POS. How is that useful or beneficially to the FOSS projects?
Another aspect is the perception that OSS is socialistic. From what I can tell, most projects are actually closer to what would be called a monarchy as far as approval processes and direction. The reason it works so well is that a good monarchy (where those in charge are actually looking to the benefits of all and just aren't power hungry people looking to buy votes) is the most stable and beneficial long term arrangement.
Bring the government into this type of arrangement and your gonna start having quotas on who can contribute to a project, complaints and even lawsuits because if some really bad coder can't get his stuff in and thus can't get paid, he's going to say that the project leaders are just biased.
I realize this is chain of thought, but would like to get some of these concepts out there.
