Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 06, 2004 08:43 AM
The problem with prestige as a currency is that it tends to be a winner-take-all situation. People aren't interested in learning the names of all the developers who contributed to a project; they'll usually settle for the leader and (if they're really motivated) his top lieutenant. There's the Stallman credit tax on free software projects ("GNU-" this and that, which is a thinly veiled reference to RMS). Then there are "advocates" who might not do much technical work at all, but who are experts at keeping their names in the press.
Of course, the same kind of politicking goes on every day inside companies large and small. But at least there you're getting paid a decent salary.
Capitalism is like what Churchill said about democracy - it sucks, but everything else sucks much worse (OK, he said it more elegantly).
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the problem with prestige
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 06, 2004 08:43 AMOf course, the same kind of politicking goes on every day inside companies large and small. But at least there you're getting paid a decent salary.
Capitalism is like what Churchill said about democracy - it sucks, but everything else sucks much worse (OK, he said it more elegantly).
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