On 07/24/2013 02:08 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
But let me add a link to this discussion: http://opensource.com/business/13/7/donations-open-source-projects I think I've got some experience with how open source projects work and there is a lot of truth in that article.
From an opensource perspective I would argue that this does not apply in our case since our focus is not upstream but rather community members or otherwise people that have enough time and experience and love a challenge and might be short on cash as well ( individual between jobs, students etc ) so while upstream might not have enought "time" to fix or implement an RFE or an design others might have that time and that it's those individuals that would go after the bounty.
Bounty offerer would get his bug fixed or the RFE,design implemented upstream would get that at zero cost of their time as well as the overall open source ego system and the code writer(s) would earn a few bucks for beer or more.
Other donations apply to the project in whole and our sub-community which is necessary to keep it running.
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