FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

[Kevin Kofler]

Adam Miller wrote:
> RedHat employees are paid to work on Fedora, why would anyone scoff at
> their contributions to the project? Would it be more acceptable if
> someone from Intel or Dell were developing and contributing to Fedora
> and backing Gnome?
> 
> This is a community and we are fortunate enough to have some of our
> community members who are lucky enough to have landed a job where they
> are paid to work full time on our community based project. Does the
> fact that they get a pay check make their contributions any different
> than those of us who do it in our spare time?

What we're scoffing at is that some people are, in fact, treating them
differently, see e.g. the continuous "Where are your full-time employees?"
bullsh*t used by some people who will recognize themselves to discredit the
mostly-volunteer KDE SIG.

        Kevin Kofler