Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:11:32 +0000 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <19980304131132.19720@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <350150dc.2887681@mail.cetlink.net>; from John Kelly on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 01:05:32PM %2B0000 References: <12740.888967601@time.cdrom.com> <34fec28f.98429829@mail.cetlink.net> <34FCF201.B9B5DB16@acm.org> <34fd483f.682772@mail.cetlink.net> <19980304124149.57634@iii.co.uk> <350150dc.2887681@mail.cetlink.net>
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On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 01:05:32PM +0000, John Kelly wrote: > Developers who want to choose their own projects can continue working > pro bono. But developers who want to get paid for the work should be > willing to work under the donors direction. That's fine. If, and only if, the donor is willing to fund the entire project themselves. Otherwise, you get the following: <hypothetical> 2 projects. Both of them important to FreeBSD. Project A is slick, sexy, and will attract lots of attention. Project B isn't as attractive, but still needs doing. You, the donor (who (probably) has only a small understanding of the FreeBSD internals) really wants project A to happen. David Greenmen, principal architect, believes that project B is more important to FreeBSD (perhaps there are three other projects that can't get off the ground until project B is completed). All other things being equal (i.e., there's a spare developer who's looking for something to hack on, and they could do either of the two projects) which project gets tackled first? </hypothetical> For a real world example, go and examine the issues surrounding tax hypothecation, and why this is (generally) a bad idea. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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