Ask HN: Critique this idea

Re:Ask HN: Critique this idea by izak30 on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @09:55AM (#682630)

Joel Spolsky talks about this over and over on the Stack Overflow podcast. People who are willing to do something for free !== People who are willing to do something for small bits of money or quantified reward.

It's possible that there is incentive to be had in the 'common goal'; "The Foo Project's Charity is the FSF; If we squash all the bugs by Labor Day, 80% of donations will go to the FSF. Otherwise, 50%"

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Re:Ask HN: Critique this idea by ErrantX on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @09:58AM (#682636)

I happen to disagree with Joel on that one - in particular circumstances :) also the aim might be to encourage those who tend not to do "something for nothing" to contribute :)

(The common goal thing is quite good....)

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