Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $
I think a careful reading of the following documents
might help in understanding the motivations behind the
debian project as a whole:
http://www.debian.org/intro/free
http://www.debian.org/social_contract
--- briand@zipcon.net wrote:
> >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
> writes:
>
> Colin> 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.
>
> Colin> Are you sure it isn't? You do that and I
> guarantee you most of the
> Colin> developers will leave.
>
> yes I'm sure it isn't.
>
> It may be in the course of discussion I will find
> it's a bad idea, and
> my thinking was wrong-headed. I will gladly admit it
> if that's the
> case.
>
> Expand on why you think developers will leave, it's
> not obvious to me.
>
> If I pay someone to do unfun work others don't like
> doing wouldn't
> that be a positive thing ? And shouldn't the
> current developers be
> first in line in such a system ?
>
> Or are you worried that if you can't pay _everyone_
> then it will cause
> envy problems.
>
> I'm just guessing, please let me know your
> rationale.
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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