No one hiring because they cannot switch their minds from corporate culture to the open source one.
Look at freebsd, apache *, webkit, and thousands other projects - they're growing up by the effort of hundreds of remote commiters, and managed somehow to follow the architecture agreements and the design decisions.
The idea is very clear - you cannot pay people on 'per hour' or even 'per line' basis - it works only for a full-time jobs where people are bounded by contracts, NDA, and other papers.
In contrast, in the open source world, people bound by idea, desire and the common effort, see the nginx project as an example.
But it is possible to pay for accomplished goals or milestones. Of course, you need to define the basic rules before - coding style, unit-tests requirements and so on.
So, if you like to hire people remote people, you need two things - idea and trust. Set up trac or code.google.com, write your ideas and requirements and pay for closed tickets/issues.
Update: To anonymous coward down-voters: It is better for everyone (even for you) to share your opinions instead of simply click the button. =)
You were downvoted because your response is off topic. Beyond that, remoting does work for proprietary software (see Stackoverflow), so your argument is shaky at best.
The reason the other downvoters didn't respond was that there's no need to pursue this thread of communication further, as it does not really relate. It's cowardice in the same way not fighting the guy who cuts you off in traffic is cowardice.
And I don't intend to turn this into any kind of debate or anything. Just my two cents on why you got downvoted.
Look at freebsd, apache *, webkit, and thousands other projects - they're growing up by the effort of hundreds of remote commiters, and managed somehow to follow the architecture agreements and the design decisions.
The idea is very clear - you cannot pay people on 'per hour' or even 'per line' basis - it works only for a full-time jobs where people are bounded by contracts, NDA, and other papers.
In contrast, in the open source world, people bound by idea, desire and the common effort, see the nginx project as an example.
But it is possible to pay for accomplished goals or milestones. Of course, you need to define the basic rules before - coding style, unit-tests requirements and so on.
So, if you like to hire people remote people, you need two things - idea and trust. Set up trac or code.google.com, write your ideas and requirements and pay for closed tickets/issues.
Update: To anonymous coward down-voters: It is better for everyone (even for you) to share your opinions instead of simply click the button. =)