On Monday 16 July 2007 22:38, Dan Langille wrote: > On 16 Jul 2007 at 16:30, Dan Langille wrote: > > > On 16 Jul 2007 at 22:19, Francisco Rodrigo Cortinas Ma wrote: > > > > > - In the fact that you need funding, the right way is to ask for > > > "donations". This will remain valid as long as the project > > remains > > > "small". > > > > We have asked for donations. In a prevoius email, Kern mentioned > > this has been about $8000 since 2000. That's about $4 a day. Given > > the number of users, it's pretty clear that donations don't work. > > Please ignore my calculations. They are not based on fact. I messed > up. My apologies.
I never calculated it on a day basis. If I do so, it looks like my out of pocket expenses have been running about $22 per day. If you include a reasonable salary based on my last one (1995) it would be more like $550 per day. I'm sure people like Dan and Scott many others understand, but perhaps users don't realize that Bacula is where it is today not because I devoted part of my time to it. It has been continuous 60-80 hour weeks for the 7.5 years I have been working on it. In saying that, I certainly don't want to minimize the contributions that were made by many people (see the AUTHORS file). Most guys in my shoes would have sold the software (cups was just sold to Apple, ...). I figure the *minimum* price for Bacula would be $3-4 million. My salary alone during that time would have been at least $1.5 million. However, I have transferred the copyright to FSFE so that Bacula (the source) will not and cannot be bought. When I receive criticism for wanting to provide additional services and trying to ensure that it is properly funded in a *fair* way so that the effort won't go broke, I get the feeling that some people are living in a fantasy world where they believe, without realizing it, that Open Software programmers can survive on air only and they are obligated to serve corporate interests. Most likely this is not how the critics feel, but it is certainly the impression that comes across at least to me. > > My point remains: donations are insufficient to fund the project > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
