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<BR> Mattis: From personal experience, I'd say that 90 to 95 percent of the <BR>time that I
<BR> worked on Gtk and the Gimp was personal time. The other 5 to 10 percent of <BR>the
<BR> time was stolen from part-time jobs -- shhh! -- or done for a few college <BR>credits. I
<BR> guess most of my time fits into the "other" category with a small <BR>percentage being
<BR> blessed by the university.
<BR>
<BR> LinuxWorld: It seems likely that you both would have been offered jobs in <BR>the Linux
<BR> community. Why didn't you take any of them or create your own business <BR>centered
<BR> around Gimp?
<BR>
<BR> Mattis: I wanted to explore other areas of programming besides graphics.
<BR>
<BR> I felt I had "done my duty" for free software and wanted to move into the <BR>commercial
<BR> sector to see what it was like.
<BR>
<BR> I still have the opportunity to take a job in the Linux community if I <BR>want. That bridge
<BR> has not been burned.
<BR>
<BR> I still have the opportunity to create a business centered around the <BR>Gimp. It just
<BR> wasn't something I wanted to do immediately after leaving school. The <BR>biggest
<BR> reason being that I don't feel I'm qualified to run such a business and I <BR>wouldn't want
<BR> to let someone else run it either.
<BR>
<BR> Kimball: Although Gimp was probably my most enjoyable pursuit in the past <BR>four
<BR> years, even it lost some of its appeal with time. As for other jobs in the <BR>Linux
<BR> community: I'd gladly have taken one if it could offer reasonable upside. <BR>
<BR>
<BR> LinuxWorld: Would you like to say anything about WilberWorks?
<BR>
<BR> Kimball: I hope they do well. It's flattering to have a company which came <BR>into
<BR> existence to support a product you created...even if it is to fix your <BR>buggy code.
<BR>
<BR> LinuxWorld: Peter, you earlier mentioned "purely selfish reasons" as an <BR>important
<BR> part of the recipe for a successful project. It would have been very, very <BR>nice, from
<BR> the purely selfish perspectives of many eager Gimp users, if you and <BR>Spencer had
<BR> waited until after the Gimp 1.0 release to take other jobs.
<BR>
<BR> I'm wondering if there might have been a magic conduit through which the <BR>gratitude
<BR> of the open source community could have been transformed into reasons <BR>"purely
<BR> selfish" enough to make you stick around a little bit longer. What would <BR>have
<BR> worked to retain your skills for Gimp (or other open source projects)?
<BR>
<BR> Mattis: I'm really not sure what it would have taken. Hell, if the timing <BR>had been
<BR> different I might have gone to work at RHAD Labs. They just happened to <BR>offer me
<BR> a job after I had taken a job at Inktomi. I think it is important for a <BR>job in the free
<BR> software community to provide an equivalent compensation to a job in the
<BR> commercial world. That means salary and stock options and benefits.
<BR>
<BR> Kimball: Your implied question is: how can the OSS movement retain <BR>high-yield
<BR> individuals who eventually move on to lucrative jobs in the commercial <BR>sector? I
<BR> don't know a good answer to that question. It obviously depends on the <BR>individual
<BR> and their personal career goals. After school was done, I was far more <BR>interested
<BR> in pursuing a career which diverged from hacking, making it unlikely that <BR>I could
<BR> have been persuaded to continue Gimp work. However, in the time that has
<BR> passed, I've followed Gimp progress closely, and have been steadily at <BR>work on the
<BR> Online PhotoLab.
<BR>
<BR> LinuxWorld: What would you consider to be the
<BR> ideal relationship between the open source
<BR> community and money? How would you like to
<BR> influence the community's balance of idealism
<BR> and pragmatism? How you think the open source
<BR> economy should work?
<BR>
<BR> Kimball: From the first line of source code to the
<BR> last, Gimp was always my "dues" paid to the free
<BR> software movement. After years of using emacs,
<BR> gcc, Linux, etcetera, I really felt that I owed a debt
<BR> to the community which had, to a large degree, shaped my computing
<BR> development.
<BR>
<BR> Mattis: My view of free software has always been that you don't need to <BR>make it
<BR> your life's work. I may never work on free software again, but I've still <BR>contributed
<BR> dramatically. If the free software world can keep using the college <BR>students and
<BR> graduate students of the world, then I don't see a huge need for lifelong <BR>free
<BR> software programmers.
<BR>
<BR> I think I like what Red Hat is doing in subsidizing some of the free <BR>software
<BR> development. As far as I know, they have Alan Cox on the payroll so that <BR>he can
<BR> use his time as he sees fit to do kernel development. And there are a host <BR>of
<BR> Gnome folks at RHAD Labs. I like that.
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<BR> About the author
<BR> Stig Hackv鋘 is an open source developer who has served as a <BR>core
<BR> XEmacs developer and has been an active participant in the <BR>Linux
<BR> community since before the 1.0 kernel. Currently, Stig is <BR>writing a book on
<BR> open source licensing, to be published by O'Reilly & Associates <BR>this spring. <BR>-- <BR> 白马带著她一步步的回到中原。白马已经老了,只能慢慢的走, <BR>但终是能回到中原的。江南有杨柳、桃花,有燕子、金鱼…… <BR>汉人中有的是英俊勇武的少年,倜傥潇洒的少年……但这个美 <BR>丽的姑娘就像古高昌国人那样固执: <BR> <BR> 「那都是很好很好的,可是我偏不喜欢。」 <BR> <BR>※ 来源:·BBS 水木清华站 bbs.net.tsinghua.edu.cn·[FROM: 202.99.18.67] <BR><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
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