Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]> writes: > Hi David (et al.), > >> Would there be enough people willing to commit to regular payments at a >> sustainable scale again that there is a point in me turning to work here > > I’m willing to dedicate a small amount regularly for the foreseeable future. > Hopefully there are “enough” of us, however many that means for you.
Well, my reserves are such that it is not really about how many but how much. If we are talking about a monthly €20, it would require 50 people to essentially tread water financially (meaning that there won't be anything left at the end of the month even if I choose carefully what to eat). More realistically 60. The gist is that with free software, it is tricky to reach enough people to make this kind of thing work with what amounts to micropayments. Even if there are actually ten thousands of users profiting. Which means that anything that has a chance of working will be unfair. -- David Kastrup
