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If they worked, would Babel have more money? Looking at their website, it seems it is a free project. No mention of any paid product. Then how would they have m
by perryizgr8 5y ago
If they worked, would Babel have more money? Looking at their website, it seems it is a free project. No mention of any paid product. Then how would they have more money had one person worked?
- Arnt 5y agoLook at another aspect. There's the work aspect: the lucky fellow who was paid $11k/month for creating one PR and two issues. There's also management/overfiew aspect: the organisation that didn't notice that it was paying. If the organisation (I realise it's just a few people) were paying enough attet6ion to notice that it was paying for ~nothing, then it's a fair assumption that it would also be paying enough attention to its sponsors.
- perryizgr8 5y agoDefinitely it is very surprising that they continued to pay despite there being close to zero output. If I tried this in my company I'd have a PIP in 2 months and probably get fired in another 2.
- akmittal 5y agoMost people pay because babel is useful and they want to support the project. Funds going to wrong hands is different deal.
- perryizgr8 5y agoI meant the org should have stopped paying an employee if he didn't work.
- Arnt 5y agoPerhaps, but that seems rather destructive. A more constructive approach would have been to pay attention to the sponsors.
- viraptor 5y agoThey could have more money for 2 reasons: 1. People may have stopped the support seeing how the existing funding is mismanaged. 2. People may not support seeing how little work is done with the existing funding. Basically better state of the project = more likely funding.
- prepend 5y agoThey would have more money by cutting unnecessary expenses. The optimistic way is that maybe harder work would increase revenue.