[mythtv-users] Paying one or some of the developers
Kevin O. Lepard
kolepard002 at charter.net
Tue Sep 5 03:07:33 UTC 2006
>Who would you rather collect money from, after working on something for a
>couple of weeks:
>- $25 from 40 individual contributions
>- $1000 from 1 contribution
Certainly the latter.
Bounties might work if collected ahead of time, so the money was
actually already in escrow. I believe this is what they did when
they were initially wanting to boot Windows on the new Intel Macs.
>"Bounties from individuals are unlikely to get much interest. They tend to be
>on the order of a tiny amount of money for a huge amount of work."
True. However, if something is sufficiently in demand by the user
community--as the ability to boot Windows on Intel Macs was--the
money can be there.
But I do think you need an escrow system so that the "winner" of the
bounty can be sure to collect.
Just my thoughts.
Kevin
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Kevin O. Lepard
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