On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:45:49PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Personally, economic incentives have very little to do with why I work on > Debian. Fundamentally, if I was here for the money, Debian couldn't afford me. Ditto, that's not the issue here - this wouldn't be funding *developers*, it would be going to general support to run our machines, or get us developers together, so we don't have to spend our personal savings on such things. Which I think would be a nice thing, JFTR. I am against developers expecting to get paid, and yes, a 5 buck tip for a 5 hour bugfix is hardly my going rate, I'd rather a "thank you", but paying for my coffee is a nice gesture that I'd be happy to encourage. > While I understand the desire to build up the economic system around FOSS so > that more people can afford to participate more, but there's also a risk that > if participation is monetized, those who aren't here for the money will be > demotivated. I quite agree with you. > > Scott K Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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