On 10/20/06, Ray Chuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/21/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some of us are already spending our time producing open source > > software. The time spent on this is far more valuable than any > > monetary contribution (to the contributor and to the community). > > > > It is important for people who are merely consumers of the software to > > help out with bug reports, community building, donations, etc. but I > > think it's a bit much to guilt developers into spending money on > > infrastructure. I'm definitely for spending money getting features > > that I want or need faster, but I don't see the point in paying just > > to "show support" when I'm already writing code. > > I don't think he means that *everyone* who uses osflash must feel > obliged to donate, because not everyone will have that (monetary) > capability. There should be a channel for people who *want* to pay, > and this payment should go to the infrastructure only (my take).
Sure, but it should be clear where the money is going and what it's intended to be used for. People new to the community may think that donations go towards supporting the authors of open source Flash stuff, where it's just going to the infrastructure of the site. > Although contributing code is one way of contributing, it should not > be used as an excuse for not supporting a worthy cause if one has the > means. Write code for the sake of it, not as a means of justifying a > rejection of monetary contribution. That's VERY different from what I said. -bob _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
