I haven't answered on this thread until now mainly because (in the first attempt...) I wasn't sure whether that kind of money would conceivably around in this matter.
Now that Geoff has given more details, here's my 2 cents' worth. I don't know whether offering something like 1000 pounds for software would be a good idea. The reason is that it is, in my mind, too much and too little. Let me explain. It is too little. If you want to finance a software author, 1000 pounds will get you - what? A month' worth of work? Look at what Peter has told us on this list - if he were offered 2000 pounds for his ongoing work, he wouldn't accept it, because it would be far from what the software would be worth... This is a point of view I can share. So, thibking that a professoinal would do some real work for this amount of money is, IMHO, just too optimistic. So, if it were to finance some software author, it would be -either for a professional who actually is doing this on his spare time, as a hobby and then gets some benefit from it (but then, whhy 1000, and not 500, or 2000 etc...) - or for some kind of hobby programmer (such as myself). And then, it would be too much. Why should you pay 1000 pounds for some kind of amateur programmer? That wold probably leave some kind of hardware project. But, remember - all hardware projects also require some kind of software (driver etc) to go with it. So, instead of asking what kind of projetcs **might** be financed by that amound, I'd like to modify the question and ask: What would YOU be prepared to do for 1000 pounds? Answers, anyone? Wolfgang
