Maurizio as someone suggested before why don't you setup your own project to 
implement the payment system that you're so enthusiastic about as a kind of 
parallel project.

Its obvious from the discussion in this thread that you're never going to get 
that kind of payment system accepted by the KDE organisation.

Although I admit it would be tricky to keep seperate source trees in sync 
you'd soon find that a lot of the (GPL'd) patches from your project would get 
integrated into the KDE source tree anyway. That way you could try out your 
idea completely seperate from the KDE project. 

Users would have a place to go to buy features and bug fixes on commission if 
that's really what they'd be inclined to do and developers would have a 
chance to try and earn some extra cash out of their KDE work if that's really 
what they'd be inclined to do. None of this would risk affecting the current 
contributions and quality control processes in the KDE project.
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Tim Edwards
tkedwards@fastmail.com.au
 
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