Hi, 17.07.2007 12:23,, Kern Sibbald wrote:: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 11:00, Arno Lehmann wrote: ... >> 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. > > My wording was probably not very clear. This user was saying he did not want > to donate for a particular coding project (feature) because he had no > assurance that that particular project would be completed and he did not know > how much it really cost or how the money was used -- i.e. he has no > confidence in the integrity of the developers.
Ok, that's quite different to what I understood. I must admit that I can understand the user much better, now. > If that is how users feel, even a tiny minority, then I prefer to let them > contract with a company if they want to fund a particular feature. Obviously, in this case a company would have been the right business partner. > Once a company is formed, I expect that the nature of things are that there > will be far fewer contributions of code -- that is how human nature seems to > work (according to everything I have read on the subject). So I am counting > on the company and myself to pickup where the project leaves off. That might be. But I expect that some of the developers today might work for that company from time to tme, and thus would be better rewarded for similar effort. Again a win-win-situation :-) ... > A lot of people will still be getting the software and the binaries for free. > > They may or may not want to donate -- the Bacula project and the Bacula > company are quite separate. Which some people will not easily understand. > I had hoped that donations might be important, > but I was wrong. After the company is created, I expect they will be even > fewer and farther between. > > If all goes well with the company, hopefully, it will fund a lot of things > that the project cannot fund. Well, then let's hope the company goes well! 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
