On receiving an interview request from Uber

Daniel Pocock daniel at pocock.pro
Sat Dec 17 19:46:12 UTC 2016



On 17/12/16 20:36, Carsten Agger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/17/2016 08:29 PM, Charles Cossé wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Pocock
>> <<mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>daniel at pocock.pro> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     If you own an apartment in a building with elevators, you have to pay
>>     service charges to the company that maintains it.
>>
>> With all due respect, where's the motivation for the poor bugger who
>> writes the free software?  I believe that there is still something
>> missing from this equation.
> 
> The software developer would normally be paid by the hour to produce
> free software for industrial use.
> 
> That's what my company does, anyway, even if we don't make software for
> elevators or embedded systems in general.
> 
> 
>> So it's okay to pay the company to maintain the elevator but not the
>> software developer?  Where's the motivation for the software developer?
> 
> ... to maintain the elevator, and as part of that, the software. The
> developer's motivation would be the paycheck. Payment by invoiceable
> hours is a standard business model for free software developers. Support
> contracts are too.
> 

Did anything in my original email suggest the developer would not be paid?



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