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On 09/27/2011 04:12 PM, Felix Rohrbach wrote:
If the money donated to a bug is not to motivate the developers,
but a way for users to show that they care about a bug, then why
don't donate the money to the KDE eV?
As far as I know that isn't an
Well the basic idea is to be able to make a living by writing free software.
But how can it be done, if you give it away for free?
Well it does not make any sense to sell copies, because copies are free (the
proprietary way), but it does make sense to pay for the development of free
software. The
Am Sonntag, 25. September 2011, 10:56:21 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
I'd like to recommend watching Stormy Peter's excellent talk titled
Would you do it again for free. It has some very enlightening points
about this topic.
To quote from her blog:
On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 17:12:10 Felix Rohrbach wrote:
This discussion is mostly about no money at all vs. money to
developers, and I guess it will end with no result, as there are many
people strictly against money to developers. But most arguments
against it just apply to the money
Am Dienstag, 27. September 2011, 10:50:09 schrieb Anne Wilson:
Seriously, much research shows that once you have enough money to eat
and pay the bills, it isn't itself much of a motivator. I'd say that
the real motivator is showing how important the feature is to the
requester.
Maybe a
This is my personal opinion.
Motivation comes from the open rewards of the community.A mail,a ping in
irc,etc..
The fact that i will hang with some KDE people motivates me.
Trolling,whining doesn't motivate me.Money doesn't motivate me.
If someone wants to help the developers economically then
Hi all,
I think it would really help with bug reports if we let people
donate money towards getting bugs fixed. If there are lots of users
annoyed by a bug, and there's no longer a maintainer for that code,
then it makes a lot of sense to let those users contribute money
towards the bug fix
