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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
From:       Thomas =?iso-8859-1?q?L=FCbking?= <thomas.luebking () web ! de>
Date:       2005-03-13 17:05:23
Message-ID: 200503131805.23838.thomas.luebking () web ! de
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On Sunday 13 March 2005 17:24, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> 1. gives me the certainty that my money will be used to develop that
> feature.
This would technically make the KDE developers your employes, right?

> 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.
What about your money if the threshold is never met? You need some clearing 
house that guarantees the money will be paid once the threshold is met. i.e. 
you'll need a big credit institute - imho the KDE project couldn't provide 
this itself.

> Until all that is available, I don't have that freedom. Lazyness is not the
> point. Looking forward to your opinion,
Why do you think KDE should provide such infrastructure?
What you're asking for is topic for a highly specialised financial company 
(someone else -> you?) - not a group of Software developers - no matter how 
how smart they are - and a nice suggestion on howto make money with free 
software.

Aside from that there are a lot of Software companies that develop Software on 
demand - and get paid for it.

So you need a 3rd party financial institute, organizing your shareholders and 
a 3rd party software company, developing your feature.

I don't see where this touches KDE itself (as the KDE developers as 3rd party 
to your contract are no way forced to include the demanded feature)
Especially as KDE is not the only free desktop - if 
KDE/Qt/G.N.O.M.E./mplayer/Xine/Linux/GNU/BSD/[some other thousand 
projects]/whoever should have this opportunity - wouln't it be good to have 
some specialists on this anyway?

So maybe you're just on the wrong list and should instead look for someone 
financing your business model (if you think you'll have success)
Maybe kde@mail.kde.org would have been the proper list anyway?

Thomas
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