On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:19:08 +0000, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote: > >> allow voluntary up front contributions but the user chooses which > >> bounty to attach it to so popular stuff quickly builds up into big > >> bounties > > > > At first sounds good, but there is a problem here: > > Quickly, a casual user will need to pay more than he would normally pay > > Apple or MS to buy their products every 1-2 years (and I must say here, > > I get way more new features each year with new Mac OS X versions than I > > get with Gnome's timed releases). For example, for my 20 feature > > requests I might need to pledge around $1000 for all of them. While this > > is still extremely cheap considering that consultant work is about $200 > > per hour in US, we still talking about OSS which should be cheaper and > > be more friendly to "customers", aka users. Also, this gets quickly very > > expensive for the users and the whole thing is bound to fail.
<snip> This is way off topic for d-d-l. Take it to foundation-list or /dev/null. Thanks. I'll probably apologize later for being so grumpy, but for now it's time to use a proven method for improving Gnome--doing work instead of reading email. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
