a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

[<briand@zipcon.net>]

Debian fans,

I have the following modest proposal :

Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever
downloads from it's sites.  56k is free, anything faster you pay for.
Then we can pay people to work on the not fun stuff that needs doing.

And people who download ISO's to sell should be paying a LOT.

And this is not a troll.  

Debian is worth it, although there has been a lot of grumbling about
it lately (some of it deserved).  I personally would pay (more).

I would like to see more effort directed at the "not fun" stuff in
development, like error handling, documentation, testing, correctness
of packaging.  People working in their spare time don't like to do
these sorts of tasks and I don't blame them.

I honestly think that more money could make Debian an even better
distribution.

Brian