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Joel Spolsky talks about this over and over on the Stack Overflow podcast. People who are willing to do something for free !== People who are willing to do som
by izak30 17y ago
Joel Spolsky talks about this over and over on the Stack Overflow podcast. People who are willing to do something for free !== People who are willing to do something for small bits of money or quantified reward.
It's possible that there is incentive to be had in the 'common goal'; "The Foo Project's Charity is the FSF; If we squash all the bugs by Labor Day, 80% of donations will go to the FSF. Otherwise, 50%"
- ErrantX 17y agoI happen to disagree with Joel on that one - in particular circumstances :) also the aim might be to encourage those who tend not to do "something for nothing" to contribute :) (The common goal thing is quite good....)