While this is offtopic, I thought I might respond to this whole issue here.
Donations from a central point are a bad idea, because if you make it easy for developers to earn money from a project, then it creates an onus on the developers to do more than they might already be doing. I have observed this a lot, where people seem to equivocate "donation" with the actual "paying for" something. This means that developers have to give an unfair priority to the people who donated interests rather than their own. If a developer was willing to take that risk, then they should be the ones who collect donations for their project, rather than being arbitrarily paid for something they are giving away for free. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:32 PM, neuromancer <[email protected]> wrote: > Great idea, I agree. > Everyday massive micro payment are imho the next big revolution, including > it on next version of software center it's a win-win process, win for little > free software project who gain popularity by Ubuntu and Canonical brand and > a win for Ubuntu who gain more rumors and interest around develop of free > software application, that is more developer, more application, more user > and also more money for his products (e.g. u1) or sponsored projects. > > I absolute will use it. > > > Il 04/06/2010 16:01, Akshat Jain ha scritto: > > Hi! > I want to know if there are any plans for having a Donate button for free > software projects in Software Center 3.0 or 4.0? > If not then it will be great to have one. > > Regards > Akshat > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Sam Spilsbury _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
