2008/4/21 Brandon Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This "tip a programmer" idea is very interesting. What does the community > think about setting up a site where people can say "We'll each donate x > amount once y feature is integrated" or something of the sort. This way, > Openmoko can see what features are most important to the community and the > community would be able to donate to OM to help develop and research future > products.
the problem with paying a bounty for these sort of things, is that progammers then end up competing against each other, so are less inclined to share their part-way results, thus potentially slowing down a solution to the problem this was shown quite clearly a couple of years back, with the 'get windows xp to boot on an intel mac'. there was iirc, a 10k+ prize fund by the end, and it was a return to the bad old days of closed-source programming. no community, no-one helping each other if people want to donate money when they feel like it, in an un-advertised way, that's great, but setting bounties gets a -1 from me _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
