This is also a complaint running about developing for a project that has 100's of thousands of hours put in by a completely distributed group of people. Think of the amount of time the core group has put in over the years to get it where it is now that all of us can download it and have it up. 8 years of work and learning from those experiences for us all to snap up and build on the shoulders of giants in a few clicks. I always think of it in those terms and then me giving away 100 hours (about 400 in the last two projects :p) doesn't seem as big a deal. I do share a similar short fuse when it comes to requests on that code. I think at the very least getting your code out there helps everyone, improves your visibility (which helps you) and isn't going to do anyone else any good sitting locked up in the basement as a custom made, unpublished module. I buy in too much to the culture of free though I guess :p<br>
<br>btopro<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Jeff Greenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@ayendesigns.com">jeff@ayendesigns.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I've spent hundreds of hours on my modules. It's mostly satisfying and I enjoy making something that other people use. But there are days when I wonder why I'm giving all my time away for free. When folks come around and demand that I give even more for free, I can have a pretty short fuse. LOL<br>
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Hi Michelle, I certainly value your time and work...I've mentioned that before (baalwww). Here's my two cents based on over 30 years of software development in all types of roles: there will always be camps on everything! There are camps as to which hardware should be used, which programming language, which architecture, which cms, and, as I've seen here more and more, the same when it comes to the thought of whether apps should be provided for free or whether someone's time should be compensated (let alone, compensated profitably or beyond). My feeling: if ALL my work is to be for the greater good, then someone needs to start paying for the things that aren't provided to me out of the greater good, like my mortgage, gasoline, food...<br>
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