On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Kai Blin<[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 29 June 2009 07:51:03 Austin English wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kai Blin<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Yes. Realistically, there will be a contract involved regulating what >> > needs to be done to get the money. I very much doubt the government just >> > go and drop money on random paypal buttons and hope for the best. The way >> > I've seen stuff like this work before is that there's a call for bids >> > from companies to implement certain features in a piece of software, >> > maybe with the requirement at a reasonable effort to get the produced >> > changes upstream. >> >> Ah, misunderstood what you meant there. >> >> Eventually some sort of foundation would be the best thing to head >> toward, but that's a legal headache. > > I don't see how a foundation would help with a a situation like that. To recap > the (theoretical) situation. Someone, let's call him the client, wants some > features implemented in Wine and is ready to spend money on that. > > Now, there's three things the client could do. He could hire some developers > to get the stuff he wants implemented. That's a huge administrative effort > just to get some lines of code done, and as you tend to pay employees by > work-hours, you need to estimate how long it will take to implement the > feature. > > The more obvious thing to do (IMHO) is to go and contract somebody, company or > individual to implement these features. As opposed to an employment contract, > you usually agree on what needs to be delivered and pay only if it is > delivered. > > Now what I understood you're suggesting is that instead of contracting a > company or individual, the client could give the money to a Wine Foundation. > How is that money going to turn into the code the client wants to have? Is > the Wine Foundation going to hire Wine developers to work on such stuff? Is > there enough money in development services like that to offer a stable job to > any developer?
No, that's not what I was saying. I was actually referring to the comment about random paypal buttons and a lack of a real infrastructure for accepting donations. For the (theoretical) problem of what to do with a large (potential) donation, that's a whole different problem. -- -Austin
