> > > A better comparison would be Habitat for Humanity (and voluntary > > > associations in general). [...] > > > On 23 April 2003, Guido van Rossum said: > > Maybe. I get lots of junk mail asking for contributions from > > HforH and frankly I've always thought of them as yet another > > charity: there are lots of these, and most of them are so much > > larger than our community that comparison is difficult. [Greg Ward] > Don't forget, the PSF is gunning for charity status too. That's > just the most obvious way to state legally, "We are a community with > shared values, etc. etc.". I think there are a lot of parallels > between open source development and other volunteer organizations. > Heck, I like to justify the occasional weekend spent hunkered down > in front of the computer by saying I'm doing volunteer work. IMHO, > hacking on Python is the moral equivalent of helping to maintain > public-access hiking trails. (Although the latter is better > exercise, it's nice not to have to jump in the shower after a day > spent hacking on Python. ;-) Sure (although I hope you jump in the shower anyway :). But I don't want the PSF to grow to the point where we have to send junk mail to people who haven't heard about us. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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