From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sponsoring features in F/OSS projects Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:19:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341832840 13642 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2012 11:20:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 09 13:20:39 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SoC18-0003pv-4k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:20:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53450 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoC17-0004Ba-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:20:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52257) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoC14-0004B5-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoC0z-0002zc-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bk0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:61196) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoC0z-0002y5-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so7281712bkc.0 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:20:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=+PGql1hGWBhRwRhPcGbJJFKWZvt0hElCkeEHTn0Hlt0=; b=kySYGYfwiwM5AX5MPaDW5XytimCud+BpdVbo/8IvQt/TCyKkR+RsymhxBpLWxDG5Ev dHuvmeWIIXOaqctpzhBuD6KoctXtP0PRL6p3KMAIqqpOfIXgynhjui8QXX72om6bMCMC 35FgjerQLN9mb+mEfClvk+fnbfMEUP8qgpN7TIOHmjSNyH8uSXnzfrmC0pcVVayIFtR6 nCx/fd4BUzLsTTE/ZijfE5bXG67Ic6sShU/BkcBjugFT0Cfkwi4fNiHQ6o7zoiCCarb4 mblRpzJ6FWaIw6xQzPVnmKHeCjmCtOoyFLovvDinoXGkoeM2cSfVGDfK6tdkuubBekP7 fXkA== Original-Received: by 10.152.122.9 with SMTP id lo9mr40204620lab.41.1341832826690; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:20:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.112.41.99 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 04:19:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.214.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151501 Archived-At: On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Tom wrote: > immanuel litzroth gmail.com> writes: >> >> I don't see why they wouldn't be willing to pay for long term >> stuff, especially if they get to set the amount and don't have >> to pay until that is fully delivered... Hell, here is 10$ >> towards full usable C++ code browsing support in emacs... >> Immanuel > > I agree. Many people would pay for features, so they can use Emacs instead > of other tools which have those features which Emacs currently lacks. > > And even small contributions can add up if it's a feature which is > wanted by lots of users (better Java/C++ support, for example), > so that lots of people donates to have that feature. Who is going to decide which features it is possible to donate to?