On Mar 20, 2011, at 1:32 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Sat, 3/19/11, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>
Subject: Re: [PD] The economics of Open source
To: "Bernardo Barros" <bernardobarr...@gmail.com>
Cc: "pd-list" <pd-list@iem.at>
Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011, 8:34 PM
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Bernardo Barros
wrote:
Hello , Mathieu! Well, I did not refer to
implementation of new features, but the maintenance of that
code that already works, fixing bugs.
Ok, so, basically, buggy software gets rewarded for
requests to fix bugs. Bugless software is not rewarded : it
does not pay. Therefore we are encouraged to put enough bugs
in there so that we get money. Nevermind the
high-reliability ideals.
(Of course, don't let my comments prevent you from
contributing money. I'm just trying to say that some
assumptions about funding may encourage the wrong things and
cause strange compensations.)
The points you raise have a lot to do with a clear and
sustainable long-term funding model for Pd, and probably nothing to do
with any specific individual's actual donation in and of itself.
Any reasonable way Bernardo decides to fund Pd will no doubt be a good
thing. :)
I say if anyone wants to sponsor the work of someone, then its really
a matter of who they want to sponsor. That is fair. I don't think I
should get a cut if someone else is sponsored to do Pd-related work.
Actually now that I write that, I'd say that even implementing a _bad_
funding model regarding Pd isn't such a big deal at this point. If
the
only way for the general public to fund Pd was to donate to a "bug
squashing fund", it's quite unlikely that enough money would be
generated
to create an incentive for corruption. At most there would be a big
enough pot to squash a bunch of existing bugs, after which whoever
is in
charge of the effort could say, "Hey, we squashed a lot of bugs, now
let's
encourage people to donate to other things, too."
-Jonathan
On the idea of a general fund for people to donate too, I thought it
would be nice to have Pd-extended have a donate nag button, and all
that money would go to the next PdCon. The more money that PdCon
organizers have means the more people they can sponsor to come, the
more events possible, etc.
.hc
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