From kde-devel  Sun Mar 13 02:17:45 2005
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:17:45 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
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On Saturday 12 March 2005 06:51, Andy Teijelo P=C3=A9rez wrote:
> I strongly disagree with the entire idea of --in any way-- involving money
> in the development of KDE.

i don't particularly think bounties are a good idea, but if you look around=
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you'll notice that some of the core developers are paid to work on KDE, and=
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that paid for time has helped a lot. then there's the issue of how things=20
like aKademy get funded; those events can easily be 6 figure investments.=20
money is not inherently evil. in fact, it can allow tallented people to spe=
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more time on KDE.

then again, not all money is worth it either.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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