Robert,

>I have never heard of hiriing someone for development on a open
>source project?

It's possible. Some developers are paid for their device drivers by hardware
manufacturers. Also, IIRC, Alan Cox is paid for his work on Linux kernel, and
Larry Wall is employed by Tim O'Reily. This was on /., do your research if
you need accurate facts. Creative Labs were looking for Linux developers to
work on drivers. Open source is not a freeware or public domain, it's
possible to sell open sofwtare as long as the code remains available. Depends
upon the license.
Just as a side-note: ORA can be considered among major supporters- they
welcome OSS/FSF and many of their books are worth their weight in gold.


Edward V. POPKOV
Independent Developer

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