Red Hat's Max Spevack On Defending Linux Freedom 91
TRNick writes "How can developers who are working for free protect themselves and avoid getting exploited by business users of Linux? TechRadar has an interview with former Fedora project leader Max Spevack to find out how his new role as manager of the community architecture team is designed to help. Quoting: 'About two-thirds of the Fedora packages are maintained by community people, and if we didn't have that community, that chunk of work would either not get done, which would significantly harm Red Hat's entire value, or would have to made up by more [paid] engineers. The challenge on the flip side of that is to make sure that everyone in the Fedora community feels valued, that everyone who contributes can be proud of the way that Red Hat uses their code.'"
MS... (Score:1, Funny)
Look! Max Spevack's initials are MS! He obviously secretly works for Microsoft! Spy! Spy!
Re:everybody in open source is to some extent used (Score:4, Funny)
In terms of your life's work actually contributing tangible benefits to man kind, computational biology is going to outstrip "IT" anyway. I don't think that decreased financial incentive is really going to be the kicker there.
Plus, you know, more chicks in bio.
Re:Red Hat (Score:3, Funny)
you've been doing way too much oop programming lately ;)