Re: Issues with emacs

[Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>]

Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > That's where crowdfunding could help and I don't think the payment
> > necessarily has to match what they earn working on a business software,
> > because if people have a motivation to work on something more
> > interesting then they often willing to accept lower payment
> > if they gain more professional satisfication from working
> > on the more interesting project.
> 
> I, for one, would gladly work on emacs full time if I was making enough
> to pay my (frugal) bills from it. 
> 

And what's holding you back from giving it a try? The
crowdfunding infrastructure is there (Kickstarter and co.), and
it's well proven for other projects.

Of course, the crowdfunding model is more suited for contractors who are
used to taking up different projects regularly, so they can easily 
choose implementing an Emacs feature as a next project.

But it's also a possible that a skilled developer could make a
permanent living from developing Emacs features, by starting the
next crowdfunded project immediately when he finished
implementing the previous one.