On 18 Mar 2008, at 17:03, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >> Anyone have any thoughts on >> whether it would fly? > > It might but I fear that the coding community would be adversely > affected to a point where people don't work unless paid, or "free > time" programmers get shot down for taking away cash from others, > whatever. Currently if someone says he's working on <subject> and > he's not fast enough for my taste, I can just implement it faster; > if money and prizes come into play, this makes me the evil guy who > has taken away "his" money (even more so if he should have spoken > about his work on the list beforehand)... all sorts of potential > problems.
are there examples of where this has happened in other projects? maybe, if this is the case, then only small bug bounties should be offered. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev