I have even less money than coding skills right now, but this doesn't feel right to me.
However a lot of open source software projects are feeling cash crunches right now - DD-WRT Linksys WRT54G router firmware, for example. These people have to eat and have a right to the good things in life for all their hard work. Slim is a bit of a special case since it's supported by its hardware sales and the software is essential for the hardware, but if this "free" software development starts to significantly affect Slim's finances, something should be done. Perhaps I'm looking at it from a socialized medicine perspective ;-) but it seems like queue-jumping to me, i.e. "your problem will only get fixed if you pay us, and even then, if someone outbids you on their problem, we'll work on theirs first". Maybe I shouldn't expect things to be free forever, but for some of us a Squeezebox is a large investment and pumping more money into it on an ongoing basis is not very appealing. I don't mind paying for players when/if I require them as they are worth it though. Chris Laplante wrote: > In browsing around http://www.rentacoder.com by way of a slashdot > article I was wondering. Would people be interested in going in on > paying to get say the top voted X bugs or RFE's fixed/completed? > > As someone with more money than coding skills, this seems like an > appealing idea to me. Anyone else interested? > > (Granted slimdevices is a for-profit company, and thus consideration > should be given, however they also have already given a good deal to > the community as well.) > > If there was some interest either some sort of escrow system would > have to be setup. Maybe trusting in sending your money to slim, who > would in turn bid on rentacoder on the community's behalf with someone > else managing the contractor. > > -Chris > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > > -- ___________________________________ Mark Lanctot ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
