I see your point, Kendall, but the donation from id to Keith was
sort of a special case. As he explained, Keith was doing a lot
of work for free and completing the work was in jeopardy. I sure
appreciate Keith and id's commitment to finishing this valuable work.
In the future, I'll scrutinize any proposed donation carefully.
I'll probably reject any generic donations because of the logistic
problems you describe. But in the case where specific work needs
to be done by specific people, a donation/sponsorship is pretty
straight-forward to understand. In the past, for example, some of
us have received complementary video cards to help develop the
Glide driver.
It would have been a nightmare to try to divide id's donation
among other past/present Mesa contributors. It goes without
saying that I appreciate everyone's contribution but I certainly
hope no one has gotten involved with the expectation of a monetary
reward.
I haven't given much thought to organized funding and frankly, I
hope I don't have to (I'd rather spend my time coding). I'll check
out the sourceXchange page later.
-Brian
PS: Kendall, this is in no way a flame. Keith, sorry about the on-line
follow-up but I felt it was necessary.
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