On Sunday 08 October 2006 19:56, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 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, Does your employer know that money - or lack of money - doesn't influence your decisions as to what you will work on or how hard you will work? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]