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Subject: Re: 99
From: "Robin Paulson" <robin.paulson () gmail ! com>
Date: 2008-04-21 7:24:39
Message-ID: 2f3aa2770804210024k21b095e8pc7501ca695eab3e1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/4/21 Brandon Kruger <bmk789@gmail.com>:
> This "tip a programmer" idea is very interesting. What does the community
> think about setting up a site where people can say "We'll each donate x
> amount once y feature is integrated" or something of the sort. This way,
> Openmoko can see what features are most important to the community and the
> community would be able to donate to OM to help develop and research future
> products.
the problem with paying a bounty for these sort of things, is that
progammers then end up competing against each other, so are less
inclined to share their part-way results, thus potentially slowing
down a solution to the problem
this was shown quite clearly a couple of years back, with the 'get
windows xp to boot on an intel mac'. there was iirc, a 10k+ prize fund
by the end, and it was a return to the bad old days of closed-source
programming. no community, no-one helping each other
if people want to donate money when they feel like it, in an
un-advertised way, that's great, but setting bounties gets a -1 from
me
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