From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: immanuel litzroth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sponsoring features in F/OSS projects Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:56:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf300fb1ebf4c5db04c4637720 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341831418 2795 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2012 10:56:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 10:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 09 12:56:58 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 1SoBeC-0007Kt-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:56:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36061 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBeB-0002Ai-De for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 06:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54771) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBe4-00029T-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 06:56:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBdz-00044H-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 06:56:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.216.48]:56781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBdy-00043s-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 06:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: by qadz32 with SMTP id z32so1625775qad.0 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:56:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=owDoV9/8yntUutW+cIh+wywl3CihuSLmaxxi2knN++U=; b=gyIKXMKBYvZE9LTYSwJthscjw7cDw93fn6vaGgfyv89Akq+RhvEk4xI6iKZlqU3+w1 PLcbr0XaWoHv0zJTfKbyml9AdEu0u230mVcE8zL8RMWAMwtMQKLTdO+CzUA0l5tI4Tww 3ggSbMsAK3TJO1fBQoj3pX2wlQYrL2CTVCjdgf79Dh9d2jeXNrNCXAZ1vPvggkz1UY7V 026WvuEhQkH3stQiuvdBTYKdPleHmAwzzJDdHi2ermR6hB7BbE1Maz6az3AjOdurTA9/ ryIuTFJhXS+7m6DkWgU4aIXHTwm0oeetIFrHwPdoiaWOC+INEp7Ubi3LN49tl0WBSI7j zqng== Original-Received: by 10.224.213.4 with SMTP id gu4mr70578834qab.0.1341831400178; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.250.213 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 03:56:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.216.48 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:151499 Archived-At: --20cf300fb1ebf4c5db04c4637720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Tom wrote: > > Looks like somebody took the initiatve and created a site > > for that: > > > > "We love open source, but sometimes, development goes slower than we > > would like it to. We want to help improve that. We'll tell you how." > > > > Click the arrow on the right side to see how it works: > > > > http://www.freedomsponsors.com/ > > My impression is that users would be willing to pay for quick fixes > that way, but not for complicated development. If I am correct, what > would that mean for long term goals? > > --20cf300fb1ebf4c5db04c4637720 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I don't see why they wouldn't be willing to pay for long term stuff= , especially if=A0
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


On Mon, Jul 9, 201= 2 at 12:24 PM, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com><= /span> wrote:
On M= on, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like somebody took the initiatve and created a site
> for that:
>
> "We love open source, but sometimes, development goes slower than= we
> would like it to. We want to help improve that. We'll tell you how= ."
>
> Click the arrow on the right side to see how it works:
>
> http://w= ww.freedomsponsors.com/

My impression is that users would be willing to pay for quick f= ixes
that way, but not for complicated development. If I am correct, what
would that mean for long term goals?


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