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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
From:       "Gary L. Greene Jr." <greeneg () arklinux ! org>
Date:       2005-03-13 0:50:53
Message-ID: 200503121950.58686.greeneg () arklinux ! org
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On Saturday 12 March 2005 7:38 pm, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Michael, I couldn't have said it better.

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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