Re: Geeonx GUI library for LINUX and SDL 1.2

One method that has worked is to set a bounty for open sourcing it. This
tended to be bigger projects though (Mozilla and Blender come to mind)

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:12 PM, j_post <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sunday 25 September 2016 09:34:15 Jonathan Dearborn wrote:
> > Unfortunately, no nation's economy has figured out how to properly
> > compensate or encourage open source contributions.
> >
> People don't generally do open source for financial gain. The compensation
> received is less tangible than money, but it many ways more rewarding. The
> true measure of one's software skills is in having one's work widely
> accepted
> by the community of users.
>
> I began writing FOSS decades ago as a means of paying forward the value of
> the
> free software I use. Small payback for the value I'd received, but one does
> what one can.
>
> On the other hand, there sometimes is a financial reward. I've received
> unsolicited gifts of "thank you" money ranging from $10 to $600 for my
> work. I
> also received thousands of dollars worth of hardware for free to enable me
> to
> write FOSS to work with said hardware.
>
> And the capstone of it all was the offer to buy stock pre-IPO in a
> well-known
> company (not Microsoft) because of the FOSS I'd written. (In a supreme fit
> of
> irony, said stock was sold not long ago and my now ex-wife received
> $65,000 as
> a result of the work she criticized as "working for free". Some people,
> hey?)
>
> But perhaps of most importance to those like the OP is that many companies
> these days prefer to hire those who've done successful FOSS. If you're
> good at
> it, the doors are wide open in the job market.
>
> Jeff
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