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I know this is off topic but... How do the programmers here get paid? 1. You do this in your spare time and dont get paid. 2. Your day job encourages you to spend some of your time developing the db that your company uses. 3. There is an organization that accepts money and distributes it to the hackers. 4. You are all independently wealthy and do this for the fun of it. 5. You are still living at home with mom and expect one day to get a real job from this. Seriously My friend and I were talking about the open software movement and how great it is and he keeps on asking how people likeus get paid. Basically my friend and me are the type that like to stay home and not visit customers and just solve problems and writecode. Probably a lot like all of you. thanks bob -- rdavis@lillysoftware.com rsdavis@mediaone.net http://people.ne.mediaone.net/rsdavis
> How do the programmers here get paid?
> 1. You do this in your spare time and dont get paid.
Bingo!
> 2. Your day job encourages you to spend some of your time
> developing the db that your company uses.
I know a few developers are in this category.
> 4. You are all independently wealthy and do this for the fun of it.
I could see this as something to do in retirement; a bunch of cranky
70 year olds debating the next development for Postgres isn't a pretty
thought however...
- Thomas
--
Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California
> > How do the programmers here get paid? > > 1. You do this in your spare time and dont get paid. > > Bingo! I will give him a double-bingo! > > > 2. Your day job encourages you to spend some of your time > > developing the db that your company uses. > > I know a few developers are in this category. > > > 4. You are all independently wealthy and do this for the fun of it. > > I could see this as something to do in retirement; a bunch of cranky > 70 year olds debating the next development for Postgres isn't a pretty > thought however... We are cranky enough. "You want to add feature X. We don't think that is a good idea." :-) -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania19026
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:21:07PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > How do the programmers here get paid? > > > 1. You do this in your spare time and dont get paid. > > > > Bingo! > > I will give him a double-bingo! Make this a triple. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL!
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Robert Davis wrote: > I know this is off topic but... > > How do the programmers here get paid? > > 1. You do this in your spare time and dont get paid. > 2. Your day job encourages you to spend some of your time developing the db that your company uses. > 3. There is an organization that accepts money and distributes it to the hackers. this one does exist (http://www.pgsql.com) ... part of all the revenues that are made by "PostgreSQL, Inc" is allocated to be fed back into the project... the kitty isn't very big ye, but it is there, and its growing... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:21:07PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > How do the programmers here get paid? > > > > 1. You do this in your spare time and dont get paid. > > > > > > Bingo! > > > > I will give him a double-bingo! > > Make this a triple. I think we are all insane, or very sane. Not sure which. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania19026
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:21:07PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>>>> How do the programmers here get paid?
>>>>>> 1. You do this in your spare time and dont get paid.
>>>>
>>>> Bingo!
>>
>> I will give him a double-bingo!
> Make this a triple.
Quadruple-bingo.
Actually I could be put into category (2) --- my company uses Postgres,
so I have some excuse for working on Postgres during working hours ---
but I spend way more personal than business time on it. It's just an
interesting project, that's all.
regards, tom lane
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:56:49PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I think we are all insane, or very sane. Not sure which. Ask my wife and she surely says the former. :-) Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL!
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:56:49PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I think we are all insane, or very sane. Not sure which. > > Ask my wife and she surely says the former. :-) The book helped my wife see some value in this. "Gee, I don't know anyone who wrote a book", she said. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania19026
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:03:07AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > The book helped my wife see some value in this. "Gee, I don't know > anyone who wrote a book", she said. Good idea, but you have to find time for writing a book too. Also I already did this with my Ph.D. thesis so I'm afraid it won't count. :-) Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL!
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:03:07AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > The book helped my wife see some value in this. "Gee, I don't know > > anyone who wrote a book", she said. > > Good idea, but you have to find time for writing a book too. Also I already > did this with my Ph.D. thesis so I'm afraid it won't count. :-) Yes, you lose even more time with the book, which is added to the PostgreSQL time. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania19026