Hi, Andreas, I understand your point and agreed with you now that it's clear you know Stefan.
But like Richard, I also get uncomfortable with such an assertion. I've already been told such a thing (twice actually). Though my company doesn't (can't?) finance any improvement in QGIS, I already spend time on bug reporting and doc writing. And when you're then told because you are asking for a bug fixing, "if you want it done just pay it", it sounds like any other contribution you might have done has no real value. Though I agree developers need money to improve QGIS, we should also better value time spent by volunteers. Regards 2016-02-08 15:12 GMT+01:00 Neumann, Andreas <a.neum...@carto.net>: > Hi Richard, > > There 1300! open feature requests in our bug queue. These features don't > get implemented by accident or on a voluntary basis (maybe some do). We > have to be realistic. If we want to have good progress, we better start > sponsoring features! > > I am not asking a poor guy from a development country to privately invest > into QGIS, but a government organization from one of the richest countries > in the world. I also happen to work for a gov agency (on province level in > Switzerland). I know that these organizations have enough money to invest > into such software - they also pay thousands/millions of Euros in licensing > fees for proprietary software. And by using OpenSource software they save a > lot and gain flexibility - and they can influence how the software they use > gets developed. I personally think, these organizations even have an > obligation to give something back to the OpenSource software they use! > > Don't you think that it is quite ok to politely ask such organizations to > contribute a little bit financially for features they have an interest in? > If there are many such organizations contributing together, we all profit > from each other - and the ones who cannot afford to contribute can still > use it as well. I have no problem with that. > > How do you think other OpenSource gets developed? Linux, LibreOffice, > Firefox, Apache, Postgres, Postgis, etc, etc. - do you think this all > happens solely from voluntary contributors? > > Already in 2010 75% of the contributions in the Linux kernel were > contributed by paid developers: > http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm/ I think it is safe to > assume that this figure is even higher in 2015. Do you think all of these > paid devs and the organizations who sponsor them are evil? > > Andreas > > On 2016-02-08 14:46, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > > On 08-02-16 14:37, Andreas Neumann wrote: > > > If this important to you - please consider sponsoring a dev to implement > this. It can't be very complicated to implement. > > > Can we please(!) stop saying this all the time. I still hope(d) that > QGIS is a project where people work on a more or less idealistic way on > QGIS. > > Regards, > > Richard > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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