Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:15:04 -0800 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> To: fbsd_chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Top Talent for Free Message-ID: <4966EB68.4030200@highperformance.net>
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Something occured to me recently when I was listening the the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing Handel's Messiah the other day. There is no shortage of top talent willing to perform some tasks for free. In this particular case, one could argue that some of the very best in the world are singing for free. Many musicians work for free in well established orchestras, for example in Seattle where I paid money to hear Messiah. It seems like the same is true for open source. There are some very clever people right here in the FreeBSD community. Some are more widely known (jkh, Watson, McKusick) than others but all of them are very good. Some open source developers have turned their open source involvement into a lucrative gig. But many remain volunteers. Then you have situations like football here in the US or even football as you call it everywhere else. There is no shortage of top talent in these sports. These people command sizable incomes in this effort though. So what's the difference? How do some fields of endeavor get top talent for free and other fields of endeavor pay big bucks for the top talent? Certainly we could find footballers to play on TV for free. Later, Jason
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