From kde-devel  Sun Mar 13 16:24:38 2005
From: Maurizio Colucci <seguso.forever () tin ! it>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:24:38 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
Message-Id: <42346946.2060002 () tin ! it>
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Sunday 13 March 2005 16:28, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> 
>>Currently, I do *not* have this freedom. Of course, *in theory*, nobody
>>prevents me from contacting other people by mail and privately decide to
>>cofund something. But *in practice* this is too difficult. In practice, I
>>won't have that freedom until I have a system that makes it *reasonably
>>easy* for me to contact other people and *together* cofund a feature.
> 
> 
> Freedom and lazyness are often confused concepts.

Waldo, you are a very intelligent person. This means I am *extremely* bad at 
explanations. I apologize.

Even if I weren't lazy, I would *still* not have that freedom. Please let me 
repeat the paragraph you quoted away:

     I am asking for the freedom to join other people and, together,
     sponsor the developement of a feature we need.

Suppose I am not lazy, and I contact people myself, via newsgroups, email, 
etc. This still does not give me the above freedom. I don't have that freedom 
until KDE (or someone else) gives me a structure, a system, that allows me to:

1. gives me the certainty that my money will be used to develop that feature.

2. allows me to put money on a precise feature,

3. lets me see the overall donation reached so far, manages the threshold,

4. managing credit cards and secure transactions.

Until all that is available, I don't have that freedom. Lazyness is not the 
point. Looking forward to your opinion,

Maurizio
 
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