--===============0449806993== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4773541.JTubZVaNc2"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart4773541.JTubZVaNc2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 14 March 2005 00:49, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > 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. So you assume, that those developing today will stay even if this=20 donate-for-feature-system will be established. Reading through this thread, I fear that some of the developers=20 today will lose their motivation. Heiner =2D-=20 heiner at heiner-lamprecht dot net GnuPG - Key: 9859E373 Fingerprint: 3770 7947 F917 94EF 8717 BADB 0139 7554 9859 E373 --nextPart4773541.JTubZVaNc2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCNdyuATl1VJhZ43MRAtiBAJ9PMEe347Bv2EsxbBDAZEw7Ykb+swCeJDTg OCgpuQD0T/3ayda2NFCoIkg= =ECa5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4773541.JTubZVaNc2-- --===============0449806993== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << --===============0449806993==--