Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:35:35AM -0800, briand@zipcon.net wrote:
>
> 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.
This is a really 'not so great' idea. If I have high speed internet, I can
always just DL overnight instead of 10 min! :) It will not save bandwidth.
> And people who download ISO's to sell should be paying a LOT.
That's against policy - no discrimination.
> 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.
That's why there is bugs.debian.org - if you have a patch or something
or find some sort of error, just submit a bug. This is important when
running testing and unstable. Many things in development are not
necessarly "fun" :)
> I honestly think that more money could make Debian an even better
> distribution.
So is MS Windows better?
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