Re: Using money to fund real Debian work
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:54:46PM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote:
> This means that someone with a lot of money will be able to decide which
> projects will be completed just be funding them. Other projects will not
> be completed because people will lack time and incentive even if these
> projects would improve Debian more. Developers will tend to propose task
> that are likely to be funded. The "sponsors" will have a large decision
> power of what is done and rightly since they funding the development.
In my opinion, this is exactly the same as:
> This means that someone with a lot of time will be able to decide which
> projects will be completed just by doing them. Other projects will not
> be completed because people will lack time and incentive even if these
> projects would improve Debian more.
Which is already both a typical strength and weakness of many free
software projects: domination by people with time to have the last
patch.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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