From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Issues with emacs Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:50:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87bokbb4zw.fsf@gnu.org> <83086e1d-d66a-4e0c-95a7-92d10a6de7e7@f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> <87r4t3krun.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340689851 15592 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2012 05:50:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:50:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 26 07:50:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1SjOfp-0006AL-P6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:50:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjOfp-00058O-Ic for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjOfi-000585-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjOfg-0003r3-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjOfg-0003qe-82 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SjOfc-0005uy-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:50:36 +0200 Original-Received: from 94-21-223-66.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.223.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:50:36 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-223-66.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:50:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 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: 94.21.223.66 (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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85475 Archived-At: Jeremiah Dodds 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.