Let me know what you find out. Right now I'm hiring some guys in India to do work for me that I'm open sourcing[1].
The end product will use the tools that they're writing, but the whole technology community will benefit from having these tools (which will in turn generate more tools that I may end up using for my product). I would be very willing to hire someone to create just about every component of my product as an open source module and then tie the modules together myself with a UI. AJ ONeal [1] https://github.com/coolaj86/mtags - Media Tags output as JSON for consumption by JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and all other sane languages that support JSON natively. On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Thomas Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > Jimmy Kaplowitz: > > Hi AJ, > > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:16:20AM -0700, AJ ONeal wrote: > > > I was thinking more along the lines of something like this: > > > > > > I suggest that a free software organization of some sort produce some > > > sort of software. > > > I donate the money necessary to fund the development of said software. > > > > > > I benefit from the donation, but so does everyone else. > > > > > > Perhaps there is no such organization currently in place. > Hi, > > while you're discussing this, may you also consider the opposite case? I'd > like to work full time developing free software. People who pay me for > this, > should be able to deduct my payment from taxes. > > There'd need to be a charity which employs me. Maybe the charity would need > to > restrict it's services only to other charities for this model to work. > > I'll be funemployed from march next year and plan to discuss this question > with a local tax officer. I live in Switzerland a few meters away from the > German border. > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro >
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