Hi, 17.07.2007 10:35,, Kern Sibbald wrote:: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 00:18, Maria McKinley wrote: ... >> I was just looking around on the website to figure out how to make a >> donation, > > Thank you very much :-) > ... > Donations have been possible for some time (a year or two), but they > are no longer possible. Thank you to those who have already donated. > > I pulled down the donations page a few weeks ago when a user complained that > the Bacula expenses were not transparent and he was reluctant to fund > projects because of the possibility that the code would never be completed.
Groan... Kern, I think that's listening to the peanut gallery :-) Really, in that case I would have hinted that if the user wants to buy certain features he should approach the developers. If he doesn't want to donate because Bacula isn't what he looks for - fine. If Bacula offers what he needs, even better, but then he could donate, too. The argument that the code would probable never be complete is, excuse me, nonsense. I know no big software project that claims that its code is complete in the sense that it will not be necessary to further develop it. Most software packages - Windows, FreeBSD, Openoffice, samba and also Bacula for example - are continuously improved and enhanced, but I don't think anyone could reasonably state these are not complete. They all are usable for their respective purposes. > Once a corporation is in place, perhaps I will re-install the donations > page -- who knows. Which would start lots of arguments if you can reasonably donate if you can also buy, and if you can make the use of commercial fees vs. donations transparent, etc. I sense... interesting discussions. Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
