Hello everybody, I would like to add something about what Manveru explained about money and Open-source projects, that is:
Manveru wrote: >A lot of open source developers are freelancers, >so they income depends on number of projects they are able to realize >for their clients. As you probably know money are needed to cover >existence cost like accommodation, food, etc In my opinion, it is always a bit "tricky" to ask about donating money for Open-source developers. Some users assume that Open-source softwares must be always developed and released for free. Actually, in my opinion, in the "real world", it happens often the contrary. For instance, Ubuntu is developed thanks to the money of its multi-millionaire founder, that is, Mark Shuttleworth. OpenOffice, lives thanks to the backup of Sun (now Oracle) and Novell (even Ibm has its hands on it). Ardour, probably the most powerful open-source software to modify your music tracks, lives only thanks to the money donated by its users (it gets 5000$ every month). Many Open-source projects (e.g Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, Blender etc) flourish thanks to Google, through its "Summer code projects" (for each project sponsored, Google gives 5000 $). To sum up, if you wish to have a certain feature, money is often the best way to get it :-) Even in the Open-source world ;-) Best regards, Silvio
