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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
From:       Mathias Homann <Mathias.Homann () eregion ! de>
Date:       2005-03-12 8:24:36
Message-ID: 200503120924.37635.Mathias.Homann () eregion ! de
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Am Samstag, 12. März 2005 09:09 schrieb Boudewijn Gailliaert:
> Hi Maurizio,
>
> I like the idea, but I am pretty shure that a company like MS would
> donate a lot of money to skip a few good options in KDE.
> How would you handle such situations?

i guess his idea would make that impossible.
the way i understand him, he wants a "donate" button as an extension 
of the voting system (think of it as "hey i not only vote for bug 
number #abcdef to get fixed, i even pay some cash for it").
IMO, there's no way that this could be abused to have some bug NOT 
fixed / wished feature NOT implemented.


> On the other hand: why let people without knowledge, (and maybe
> enough money), decide what to do? In the case of user-options it
> could work, but not at the system-level.

ummm.... maybe because they're the majority? It wouldnt mean that the 
kde developers have no say anymore... but its the same as with the 
voting now: its a way to tell which bugs/features are important to a 
large number of users.

I don't have to be a highly-skilled developer to know that i would 
REALLY want kmail to be able to delete file attachments from stored 
mails to save me lots of space on disk.
I don't have to be a highly skilled developer to know that i would 
like to be able to attach annotations to mails.
(two examples of features wished for kmail since quite a while where 
voting took place but didn't help that much, but if everyone who 
voted for one of those hasd paid, say, 1$...)



bye,
	MH

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