Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $
Personaly, I think that working for fun on spare time gives the best
achievements, as that happend with my self. I dont state here that
developers should work harder. NOT AT ALL. But somekind of non-monetary
reward should be given. Even if some take advantage of others work, what
debian and free software represents will prevail. If one day debian gets a
little short in cash for its basic needs, there will be plenty of people
willing to help. I will, though never done it yet :-)
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:35:35AM -0800, briand@zipcon.net wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Are you sure it isn't? You do that and I guarantee you most of the
> developers will leave.
>
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> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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