On 27 April 2012 08:07, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> > *sigh* > I'll rehash an old email. > > > I know that some of us would like to get paid for lilypond work. > But I'm leery of jumping into this topic for a few reasons: > > 1) lilypond survives because of volunteer work. I think we should > be *extremely* cautious about anything which may jeopardize the > amount of time people volunteer. > > 2) if we officially organize these arrangements, there may be > currency exchange, tax issues, or legal issues that arise, > particularly given the international nature. Who gets the money? > How would it be distributed, if at all? How much loss to third > parties is acceptable? > > 3) it's not going to be enough. Companies and government grants > are where the real money for supporting programmers comes from; > hiring just one person from individual donations would require far > more users than we have. > I think that each such contest should be considered separately - it depends on the number of such activities and possible income. I believe that Lilypond need some money and contests and grants are quite a good idea of getting them, don't you think? When "earning for Lilypond" results in slowdown in developing Lilypond, we should stop, but now - there was no contest, so no slowdown, therefore, no problem :) Łukasz
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