From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sponsoring features in F/OSS projects Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341832518 10939 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2012 11:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:15:18 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 09 13:15:18 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 1SoBvx-0003Qq-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:15:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49734 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBvw-0001qR-Cy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBvt-0001ph-0f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBvj-0000v2-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBvj-0000te-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:15:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBvg-0002w6-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:15:00 +0200 Original-Received: from 94-21-154-62.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.154.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:15:00 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-154-62.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:15:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.154.62 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:151500 Archived-At: 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.