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Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:10:18 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> And all of them are invited to either decide to let me decide how to |
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> spend my time and dime, or actually pay me for said time. |
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To be clear I'm not in a position to offer, and I definitely respect and |
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value your volunteer work, but suppose someone /was/ sufficiently |
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interested in something like ffmpeg to be willing to pay for a tinderbox |
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run on it. What sort of "pay for" are we talking? Just ballpark. |
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"Beverage/dinner on me at the next conference we both attend" (or Amazon |
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wish-list book) level, "week's consultancy fee" level, "month's |
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consultancy-fee" level, "hire me for a year and we'll talk", or...?? |
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Of course given the history here, I'd not blame you for placing a higher |
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price on this particular package, but in general... |
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It occurs to me that this might be more appropriately answered on your |
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blog (I get the feed), but since it came up here, I might as well ask |
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here. Answer here or there or not at all, your call, but it's something |
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I've wondered occasionally when I've seen "pay me and it'd be different" |
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comments, both yours and others. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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