On 2010-08-09 DIL23 offered the following:

> On Monday 09 August 2010
18:38:41 Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> > [ Comments below, in line ]
> > 
> > On
Monday 09 August 2010 at 9:37 am, Duffields penned
> > about "Re:
[kdepim-users] KMail - Replying in HTML"
> > 
> > > Well if you are serious
about this, I will also contribute but
> > > another $50.00 will still not
get very far.
> > 
> > Hi Mac,
> > 
> > I'm serious.  :)  Thank you!
> > 
>
> Per Richard, I sent out a note to `opensuse-kde' [1] to see how much
> >
interest is out in the community.  As you rightly point out, the
> > handful
of us isn't sufficient to fund the development.  However, if
> > slightly
less than 50% of those who voted for the enhancement were to
> > chip in
under 14 USD, we'd be able to fund 16,000 USD.  That's 50 USD
> > per hour x
8 weeks @ 40 hours per week.  Not buckets of dollars but I
> > think enough
to generate interest.
> > 
> > Perhaps the end result will be a big fat
zero:  we want it free but
> > don't ever wish to pay for it.  :)
> > 
> >
As Richard rightly notes, if the proposed model works, perhaps there's
> > a
way to fund future OSS development.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > -pablo
> > 
> >
Reference
> > =========
> > [1] -
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2010-08/msg00053.html
> 
> This might
be worth a look for you? http://www.kickstarter.com/
> 
> DIL23
> 
As would
perhaps a visit to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86423  

Richard
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