> On Friday, January 13, 2017 5:55 PM, Jarno Suni <j_s...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Friday, October 14, 2016 2:13 AM, Alberto Salvia Novella > <es204904...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Well, better to fix a thousand computers for the same effort than >> servicing yours alone. > > If you get money for fixing each computer individually, i.e. supporting each > client individually, it might be a better deal for you not to provide a fix > that > services them all publicly. > >> In the end of the day I need the fix for myself. Why not sharing it >> then, so it becomes available in any computer from now on? > > Everybody gets fixes that are publicly available, but only contributors pay > by > their work. It is not supportive that the more you contribute, the poorer you > get. > > >> That said I believe that, in general, one shall only work in what gives >> good money. Because if it's that valuable to somebody, they will be >> willing to pay for it. >> >> Just this case is an exception. As the diversity of contributions makes >> it difficult to monetize, it's a byproduct of fixing yourself, and you >> get already a different kind of value: the most powerful computing it >> can be. > > > Maybe an association, that had many members, could direct funding to wanted > Ubuntu software projects to make Ubuntu and/or its variations greater. The > amount of money requested from each member would not be big. >
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