From kde-devel Sun Mar 13 00:38:32 2005 From: Michael Nottebrock Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:38:32 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs Message-Id: <200503130138.33207.michaelnottebrock () gmx ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=111067436202222 On Saturday, 12. March 2005 23:50, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > My proposal exploits the selfish interests of people, and turns it into > advantage for the free software movement. I'm very sceptical. I think I'm actually appalled. I mean, what this is really about is that you think that 'votes' are just too easy to ignore, right? These developer guys just need the right incentive - after all you don't get a lapdance because you keep shouting for it - you gotta hand over some cash first. So you're thinking if there's an easy way to shout "show titties!" *and* slip developers cash into their panties with "show titties!" written on it, they'll more easily forget that they are on the stage because they want to have fun (coding) and let an audience participate in the fun (with the compiled code) and instead turn into titty-twisting code-whores. If that were really the case, people wouldn't spend the amount of time on OSS that they do. Instead, they'd just take on three more projects in their dayjobs, earn more bonuses, buy bigger cars and travel to tahiti in their sparetime instead of staring into screens and hacking code into editors. Seriously, most of us are *NOT* in it for the money. Or for world-domination. Or for pleasing Eugenia Loli-Queru or the 70 voters for wish #abcdef. Waving around dollars will not have anywhere near the effect you seem to think it will. Microsoft on the other hand clearly is in it for the money, and perhaps world-domination, too. But, unfortunately, they don't have a bugzilla where you can go and vote on wishlist items. You also can't just checkout Microsoft's repository of Office translations and fix that annoying string that's been there since Office '97. But you *can* in KDE. And *that* is the advantage of OSS software, that it is open. So instead of pondering ways of bribing OSS contributors into not having fun, *****************SHUT UP AND CONTRIBUTE! 'CAUSE YOU CAN!******************** (paraphrasing Anne-Marie here). Finally, if anybody is really *that* desparate about getting some code written, they should pay a contractor. There are more than enough out there and you'll find that they will gladly let *you* define featuresets and priorities as long as you can pay their hourly wage rate. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<