On Monday 09 August 2010 18:38:41 Pablo Sanchez wrote:
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> 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

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