On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
One thing about free software funding is that its basically the inverse of the proprietary product model in what you pay for. In a proprietary product, you pay for the work that has been done and turned into a product. For free software, you get the current state of the product for free, so instead you pay for support or you pay for new things to be added to the product. That's what I recommend you pay for, if you are interested in funding some development: think of something you'd like to see improved, and fund that.
This means that there is no direct reward for work that has been done already. Then the only way to get a reward for having done work that hasn't been asked for, is always in terms of how much it will get people to offer you money for future work. Perhaps there ought to be a donation system for work that has been already done ?
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