Yes, there are many thorny issues to be discussed there, and a personal
meeting would be awesome, but that's not going to be possible anytime
soon. But I think that a bounties system like this one could work
really well.
As for getting paid for writing open source software, I think that a
lot of people who use Pd would be willing to give money to get the
features that they want. Sure anyone could do it themself, but
oftentimes its much easier to pay the person that is already deep in
it. Also, there are a lot of good coders writing things for Pd, so if
someone likes the code that someone is cranking out, paying them would
encourage them to crank out more code.
All this almost makes me want to get a full time job so I can start
paying people!! ;)
.hc
On Saturday, Jan 24, 2004, at 22:57 America/New_York, Josh Steiner
wrote:
i think its a good idea, definitely should be explored. the gnome
project recently (with the help of novel/ximian) setup some "bounties"
which seem like a good way to do this:http://www.gnome.org/bounties/
another method is that like the freenet project uses: they hire a
fulltime developer paid entirely by donations to a central fund. as i
think olaf pointed out, this requires someone with the power/will to
decide who to hire and how to rate their performance... sounds
somewhat political and sticky.--
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