On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
One thing about free software funding is that its basically the inverse
of the proprietary product model in what you pay for. In a proprietary
product, you pay for the work that has been done and turned into a
product. For free software, you get the current state of the product
for free, so instead you pay for support or you pay for new things to be
added to the product. That's what I recommend you pay for, if you are
interested in funding some development: think of something you'd like to
see improved, and fund that.
This means that there is no direct reward for work that has been done
already. Then the only way to get a reward for having done work that
hasn't been asked for, is always in terms of how much it will get people
to offer you money for future work. Perhaps there ought to be a donation
system for work that has been already done ?
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