Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Sunday, 13. March 2005 16:28, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> 
> 
>>     The freedom to join other people and, *together*, sponsor the
>>     developement of a feature we need.
> 
> 
> You need to understand that sponsoring *features* just isn't realistic, 
> because your premises about what motivates a developer to implement a feature 
> in the first place are all wrong.

Of course, but this is only true for the *current* developer community! But 
with the proposed feature, the community would grow and gain new elements who 
do have that motivation. Today, they keep themselves outside of KDE, obviously.

>>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.
> 
> 
> Yeah, whatever. Let's just drop this thread here - if you're so convinced 
> about your idea, go ahead and implement it, i.e. shut up and contribute. Or 
> find someone you can pay to do it for you.

I can't! I need an infrastructure for that too! ;-)

Cheers
 
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