Gábor Lehel writes: > I see two problems with this, one technical and one more 'fundamental': > the technical one: how to make sure people actually pay what they have > pledged when the feature is implemented? obviously, they should not > have to pay anything until it is. > the fundamental one: it may have a rather negative affect on code > quality if people start doing ugly hacks just to claim the money. is > there any way this could be avoided? I see a third problem: We have users all over the globe, people from richer countries and and people from poorer countries. It's unfair if e.g. kweather learns about German wetherstations earlier than about nigerian ones, hust because people from Germany tend to be richer. I think this whole idea sucks. -- Did you ever realize how much text fits in eighty columns? If you now consider that a signature usually consists of up to four lines, this gives you enough space to spread a tremendous amount of information with your messages. So seize this opportunity and don't waste your signature with bullshit nobody will read. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<