 Why would a company with stellar employees pay salaries?
RiderOfGiraffes: How do you measure the achievement of a groups of employees, some of whom have worked on more than one project?Why should they trust you to pay them appropriately from the profits?How do you entice employees to work on less glamorous projects?How do you entice programmers to work on risky projects that may not pay off at all?How do you get a better employee to work with rather than against a less stellar employee?Contractors offering fixed-price contractors do this, but they don't do the grunt work that underpins much of the continuing work.