From kde-devel  Sun Mar 13 20:42:51 2005
From: Maurizio Colucci <seguso.forever () tin ! it>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:42:51 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
Message-Id: <4234A5CB.5020906 () tin ! it>
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Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Sunday 13 March 2005 21:20, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> 
> 
>>maybe he complains because the feature should have been done years ago?
> 
> 
> According to what scaleß
> 
> 
>>This is about using users money in order to speed up development and
>>increase the number of developers.
> 
> 
> You think that bounties will attract new developers not familiar with KDE 
> code, they write a patch (which as mentioned maybe newer applied to KDE),
> get their money and then continue to contribute to KDE *without money*?
> 
> I guess you overestimate the sustainability of a bit money.
> 
> Bye,
>    Steve


Hi Steve. :-) This may be true. I may be overly optimistic, but why not try? 
Since nobody's freedom will be hurt in any way?

I am confident that, with a new donation system, KDE would not loose 
developers (because noone would be forced to accept an offer; you are free to 
keep up coding like you do now). On the contrary, we would slowly *gain* 
developers and, more importantly, the overall man-hours of coding will 
increase.  Why? Because, if users feel they are influencing KDE and speed up 
the features they really want, they will pay *much* more. The amount of 
donations will slowly but gradually increase, and developers will eventually 
be able to *make a living* implementing features and fixing bugs. Developers 
which currently work in the spare time will be able to work full-time. KDE 
will evolve at a faster pace.

Maurizio
 
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