Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263735AbUFRXhW (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:37:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265749AbUFRXYC (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:24:02 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:22470 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265782AbUFRXTH (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:19:07 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:18:58 +0100 (BST) From: jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org To: Jan-Benedict Glaw cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness In-Reply-To: <20040618213830.GT20632@lug-owl.de> Message-ID: References: <40D33C58.1030905@am.sony.com> <20040618200848.GL20632@lug-owl.de> <20040618211000.GP20632@lug-owl.de> <20040618211352.GC7404@suse.de> <20040618213830.GT20632@lug-owl.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 2.63 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (0.3 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.3 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1531 Lines: 32 > On Fri, 2004-06-18 23:13:53 +0200, Jens Axboe > wrote in message <20040618211352.GC7404@suse.de>: > > On Fri, Jun 18 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > > Hope the CE Forum will show some engagement there. Or OSDL. Or IBM. > > > Or ... But usually, that's hot air. No direct income :--< I have heard companies complain about the free beer mentality linux users have. I guess they have the same problem :-( > > Come on people, not everything is counted in dollars or euros. Lots of > > people enjoy doing auxiliary work in their spare time and get loads > > done. If it doesn't work for you, then maybe you are not the right for > > the job or maybe you are doing something wrong. > > Well, sometimes I actually do some nice work to put on the table, but > keeping an eye on a good number of vendor trees is IMHO *far* beyond > what you'd actually do at some late evening at the weekends. That's way > more than a good full-time job. At least, I think so. I agree. Its not a matter of money but of time. Of course it is nice to pay bills. Quality takes time. That is just reality. The question is how much time can you put in it over say a week period. If you work for a living doing something else there goes 40 hours working on a open source project. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/