On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:58:10PM -0400, Scott Young wrote: > > An interesting idea - although I am not sure that people really need to > > have a financial incentive for this, there are no shortage of people > > willing to do this kind of research just because it is fun and > > interesting. > > True, but a financial incentive would be more of an encouragement. > Think of all the college students that need some money to pay off their > loans.
Perhaps, but there is a particular English programmer already proficient with Freenet development on whom those funds might be better spent, and who I suspect would be equally appreciative. I don't want to dilute the donations which we can spend in the manner that most benefits the project (currently, this is by paying Matthew's meager wages) with lump sums going to one person to the exclusion of the many people who'se work would undoubtedly support theirs. In short, "competition" discourages "collaboration" - and I prefer the latter. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Weblog http://slashdot.org/~sanity/journal
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