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Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
From: Maurizio Colucci <seguso.forever () tin ! it>
Date: 2005-03-13 20:42:51
Message-ID: 4234A5CB.5020906 () tin ! it
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Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Sunday 13 March 2005 21:20, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
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>>maybe he complains because the feature should have been done years ago?
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> According to what scaleß
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>>This is about using users money in order to speed up development and
>>increase the number of developers.
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> 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*?
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> I guess you overestimate the sustainability of a bit money.
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> 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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