On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:54:46PM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > This means that someone with a lot of money will be able to decide which > projects will be completed just be funding them. Other projects will not > be completed because people will lack time and incentive even if these > projects would improve Debian more. Developers will tend to propose task > that are likely to be funded. The "sponsors" will have a large decision > power of what is done and rightly since they funding the development.
In my opinion, this is exactly the same as: > This means that someone with a lot of time will be able to decide which > projects will be completed just by doing them. Other projects will not > be completed because people will lack time and incentive even if these > projects would improve Debian more. Which is already both a typical strength and weakness of many free software projects: domination by people with time to have the last patch. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]