On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:55:34PM +0100, Manuel Souto Pico wrote: > > Kev, what are monitary bounties? > If the free software world, there are websites where you can advertise something you would like for someone to do. In this case, make an insurance program. And you then say what you may be willing to pay for it. There might be other people who would also like to see such a program and those folks might want to add more money to your 'bounty' to make it more attractive to a programmer. There may also be the expectation that this work would be put under a free software license so that the work can be improved upon and used by other insurance companies. One example is Bhutan, they wanted someone to make a Gnu/Linux system for them that used the tibetan language -- a very obsure language used by less than a million people. They ask Microsoft and got an offer of 500,000 usd. So free software consultants did it for 50,000usd. So if you are willing to put the software under a free license, folks may be willing to do it cheaper since the end result will benefit more people. -Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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