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Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > Wow - BBC covering OSS software twice in a week!! I wonder if the term "volunteer" is something we should de-emphasise? OpenOffice.org may have been a volunteer effort in parts, but the bulk of the work was done by paid programmers a long time before, and many of the contributors were SUN employees. I think the language is misleading. Or perhaps we should encourage people to state more clearly whether a contribution was done on a volunteer basis, or whether it was done as part of paid work, or some combination. There is a big difference between spending 40 hours fixing a program you are paid to fix, and sending the result upstream, and spending 40 hours of ones own time on it. But also it paints a different picture to business when you discover that a large proportion of the "volunteers" you rely on, are paid professionally to write/use/test the free software they provide you with.
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