And someone has one... Re: Virus Alert !!!

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 03:06:05PM -0500, Steve Robertson (steven_j_robertson(a)hotmail.com) wrote: That's funny; the Red Hat developers that I know get paid enough that I'd be quite happy to land a job there. To take another example, O'Reilly and Associates has Larry Wall on their payroll, and his sole responsibility with them (beyond things PR) is to guide development efforts on Perl. On that arrangement, he says: "Essentially, my position is what you call a patronage. It's a very old-fashioned idea which goes back to the time when there was an aristocracy and they would support artists and musicians. They would have a patron. Tim O'Reilly is my patron. He pays me to create things, to kind of be in charge of the Perl culture." -Rich -- ------------------------------ Rich Lafferty --------------------------- Sysadmin/Programmer, Instructional and Information Technology Services Concordia University, Montreal, QC (514) 848-7625 ------------------------- rich(a)alcor.concordia.ca ----------------------