Hi Robert, A very recent opportunity was at at Sebastian Trueg's blog ( read from this post onwards http://trueg.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/nepomuk-fundraiser/ )
Regards, Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Robert Klotzner <robert.klotz...@gmx.at>wrote: > On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 06:11:09 PM John Tapsell wrote: > > > I would really like to see bounties being raised for bugs. There > > are a lot of problems with having bounties, and in the past such an > > idea has been shot down, but maybe it's worth revisiting. If users > > care about a bug being fixed, perhaps they would be willing to put up > > a small amount of money towards it being fixed. If enough users do > > that, it entices developers to fix the bug. > > Hi John! > > As I am thinking about creating a platform for exactly this purpose, you > made > me curious. Could you point me to the thread where this was discussed or > maybe > some could highlight the basic reasons why this idea was shot down? > > Because if nobody thinks this would be a good idea, I maybe should invest > my > time in other stuff. I think putting money in the game could in some areas > be > a real boost to free software. After all, people spend huge amounts of > money > for proprietary software, although they don't really own it after-wards. I > think it makes a lot more sense to invest money, in more valuable, free > software. > > I am really curious about the reasons, any hints are welcome. I don't want > to > restart any old discussions, so if this was already discussed in detail, > please just point me to the thread of interest ;-) > > Best regards, > > Robert > > > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > unsubscribe << >
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