True, I could do the negotiations, verification, and financials myself.
However, that would use a lot of my valuable time so that we’re talking
magnitudes higher cost. Would this not be a great role for the Eclipse
Foundation? Running a kickstarter site for Eclipse plugins?
In my experience thinks only really work well when there is a bigger entity
involved for the financial and trust aspects.
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
> On 16 Nov 2017, at 00:17, Mickael Istria <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 15, 2017, Peter Kriens <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Now, I would have no problem paying for Eclipse $200-$500 a year if this
> translated in aggressively competing with Intellij. After all, I spent most
> of my working life behind an Eclipse screen. You only need 15000 of those
> users out of 10 million (?) to double the Eclipse budget. Now I do not feel
> like donating that kind of money to the foundation without knowing that it is
> really spent on coding. Because it is open source I can get away with this
> selfish behavior.
>
> I can understand that and I agree that donating to the Foundation isn't a
> good way to sponsor the Eclipse IDE, nor any specific product un general.
> That said you could directly get in touch with some Eclipse IDE developers to
> sponsor their work and allow them to spend a bigger part of their work time
> to improve the IDE. There are 2 interesting bugs dedicated to encourage such
> peer-to-peer funding:
> * https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=516825
> <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=516825>
> * https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=525983
> <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=525983>
> Please comment on such bugs whether you think those are worthwile ideas or
> not. Community support is the missing prerequisite to make those come true.
> Then, later, if such services are widely enough used in the Community, the
> Foundation could consider creating similar services which are more profitable
> for everyone.
>
>
> --
> Mickael Istria
> Eclipse IDE <https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/> developer,
> at Red Hat Developers <https://developers.redhat.com/> community
> Elected Committer Representative at the Eclipse Foundation
> <https://www.eclipse.org/org/> board of directors
>
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