Reality check

[John Smith]

> > Yes, we welcome you to the wonderful world of OpenSource.
>Or hire a wine developer to specifically work on those tasks ,-)
Hmmm... Out of 4 replies I've seen now 3 (or 75%) were about money. Which 
leads to the question - why _that_ many people in the wonderful world of 
OpenSource are obsessed with money?


>From: René Rebe <rene at exactcode.de>
>To: wine-devel at winehq.org
>CC: Marcus Meissner <marcus at jet.franken.de>, John Smith 
><devel8421 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Reality check
>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:58:41 +0200
>
>Hi,
>[...]
> > > Welcome to the real world
> >
> > Yes, we welcome you to the wonderful world of OpenSource.
> >
> > Please understand that a lot of us are not being paid ... and so just 
>chose
> > what to do. Some of us are paid to work on WINE, but for specific tasks.
> >
> > So your bug might lie around until someone bothers to look at it.
> > Or not if it is tickling the interest of a developer.
> >
> > #3270 ... is difficult, since it is lowlevel USER stuff.
> > #3269 ... Not hard, its just that no one implemented it yet.
> >
> > Please do not keep up such high expectations, they are not warranted
> > and will not be fulfilled.
>
>Or hire a wine developer to specifically work on those tasks ,-)
>
>Yours,
>
>--
>René Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany)
>             http://www.exactcode.de | http://www.t2-project.org
>             +49 (0)30  255 897 45

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