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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:50:52 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
Message-ID:  <17829.6508.373404.263832@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0701100248wcc53107mbf20862cba222076@mail.gmail.com>
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Nikolas Britton writes:

>  > For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just as
>  > deductible as "contributions"?  Hire someone qualified as your
>  > own full- or part-time employee, and assign them to work on the
>  > projects that you want to support.  As just one example, that's
>  > effectively Red Hat's entire operation AFAIK.
>  
>  Interesting... I'm not sure the owner would go for it
>  though. Maybe a 1099 contractor. Would anyone in the group at
>  large be interested in arrangements such as this?

	Consider looking up the developers who most recently worked on
the projects of interest; if they're not available, perhaps they
can recommend someone.

>  What kind of money (rate) would you expect if you got payed to
>  work on stuff your already working on in your spare time?

	Unless you have a fairy godparent, expect to pay standard
commercial rates based on the task and the qualifications of the
programer.


				Robert Huff



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