Negotiating Pay for Open Source Work?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday October 2, 2003 @09:40AM from the don't-forget-to-read-your-contracts dept.

OpenSourceforMoney asks: "For about nine months now I've been working on an Open Source software project; the first release was five months ago. It's reasonably popular given its age -- several hundred users at least (users, not downloads) -- but despite my best attempts, I've been unable to get even a few dollars in donations to help support this (and being a student, I really need to get some money from somewhere). Now suddenly I've been approached by a company which wants to pay me to continue working on this project. How should I handle this? Should I ask for an hourly rate, or should I come up with specific targets and attach prices to each? How much money is it reasonable to ask for, for doing work which I'd end up doing (albeit more slowly) even if I wasn't getting paid? How have Slashdot readers handled the transition from working on a project for fun to being paid to work on it?"

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Re:New software news by Wilk4 · 2003-10-02 10:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

not my favorite browser, thanks.
here's my fav... http://www.mozilla.org/
I wanted to post something constructive... by Osrin · 2003-10-02 10:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

... but I'm not going to bother, I'm guessing that this entire story is either a troll or a joke. At least, I'm hoping it is.