On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 21:40 +0100, Ed W wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Well one issue you are going to run into is cost. I don't know about > > Chris but for us to do that you are going to have to come up with (even > > with a discounted rate) 20k+. That is with a significant discount off of > > our normal rate. > > > > > What currency? USD? Seems not unreasonable (is that per month or for > two months?) Yes that would be USD for ~ 20 hours a week, 8 weeks. > > Given that I am happy to fund around $10K, but perhaps 50% of that is > held back to pay for some less general stuff which will be more useful > for me (in particular I would like a credit card terminal feature in > the software), I really don't see why a few other business won't stump > up some sensible money to sponsor some serious development and meet > that number? Many feel open source should be free. CMD makes 99% of its money not from what we want to make money from (which is developing PostgreSQL) we make it from supporting it. > I hope that we will see 10-20 other businesses look to fund $2K+ each > (is that really so much for an unlimited licence for a bit of > software? It's one decent laptop? Sage would cost me more than that We do know of one company that has funded a *lot* of money toward the development of LedgerSMB. You are not alone in your quest. > just in the first year...), which would fund some substantial > development time. I would like to think that we will see businesses > contribute around $40K+ which we can turn into some serious > development...? > Yes it definitely can. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
