Re: Formation of Gnome-user-foundation

[Olafur Arason <olafra gmail com>]

This would only be a way to enhance the development of Gnome not to replace it.
I do agree with you that this would be bad for the developing world,
we could have
a system where there was a minimun of 3$ annual fee and prefered 30$ but you
could contribute any amount you liked, the point would be not to dictate what
core developers are doing that would be stupit, the point would be to get
people that are on the fringe to develop more for Gnome and they can do that
because they don't have to worry about working to much because they will get
payed. 
Also your logic works both ways, imagine people in asia and south
america getting
1000$ dollers to work on Gnome.

Olafur Arason
Ps these ideas are more inclined with left anarchism and gift system
that capitalism
so we are not talking about segregation.


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:16:24 -0500, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:01:22PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Llu, 2005-03-14 at 13:11, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >
> > >     "If you have a high level of income, then your bugs matters"
> > >     "If you are part of our club, then your bugs matters"
> >
> > IMHO Its just a variant on the bounties. If Novell can do bounties why
> > can't 50 users get together and issue a bounty on a matter that annoys
> > them. Is it any different to a business saying to Red Hat or Novell "We
> > need XYZ then we could do 5000 desktops."
> 
>   I think there was an agreement on "no more bounties", je are just
> finishing to ventilate the existing bounty fund, but not accept new
> bounties funding.
> 
> > I agree it shouldn't control development or dictate to volunteers what
> > feature to add but providing it is seperated clearly (as with any other
> > user group) then is there a problem ?
> 
>   To me the problem was "pay 25$ and be part of our powerful club" which
> looks to me the last thing to do to try to grow GNOME in new areas like
> Africa and Asia. More bugzilla triaging is good, doing more analysis
> on user input is good, generating upfront user segregation on income is
> really bad.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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