I also want to support the use of the (Gem-) money! I made money with Gem so i thought it is time to give back (and support my own selfish future money making) with giving to Gem bounty. I very much am thinking like Julian, i want the money to be used by Gem devs instead of bounty source. Also i like the idea of software to be developed in way where everybody contributes as much as wanted and with individual possibilities.
If that is with academia nuts where an institution is paying for developement to raise common practical knowledge, even better. But if that is not possible for some reason, i find it no harm that private money helps to climp a nessessary step. In our Case no supperiour institution takes over, just the little asskick for an awsome product needs to be made.
Institutions can be friendly to open source products, but for sertain developments on proprietary platforms an extra push can be needed. The whole community would benifit from Osx 64bit Gem; more up to date users, more recognition, more interchangeability between platforms. But of course someone needs to do it! Someone who is not "starting from zero“ (in dev coding: like me). Ideal: someone where the bounty money fits into the buiseness plan. "1-2 weeks work for 1000$“ for the developement of the great Pd. But else: please, academian paid programming wizzards, please take a deep sigh, oil your fingers and code the nessessary black box. Take the money and make a big party, give it to your favourite doctor to attest your mental sickness for your absents of work, pay the wedding ring with „Pd“ engraving, or give me the money to massage you while writing the necessary lines of code, pay your normal live with it, or organize the next Pd convention.
no huhu, i got carried away. many words for a simple message: I love Pd (+Gem) and would love to continue to love a living creature.