Re: Bashing freelancers

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2015, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8uf9ye4e.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <871tl1q25i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Good work is worth good money. Suggesting that people who are not able
>>> to work for free are morally inferior is not conducive for a cooperative
>>> work atmosphere.
>>
>> Yes, but I do not think anybody did any such thing.
>
> "Of course, I am hoping that all the mentors are doing GSoC not for
> money but out of love of our software and our community,"
>
> Huh.

I did not intend any moral judgement in that statement, but after re-reading it, I would say that "not for money" would have been better phrased as "not only for money".

Let me clarify.

There _could_ be a mentor who hates Git the software and Git the community, who wants to mentor students only for the mentorship stipend. I do not want to see such mentors. I would imagine that such a person surely can find something else that is more enjoyable and do the mentoring there for money, if competent enough to mentor others. And that would be good for everybody.