Re: Allow users to donate money towards bugs

2011-09-29 Thread Robert Klotzner
Well the basic idea is to be able to make a living by writing free software. But how can it be done, if you give it away for free? Well it does not make any sense to sell copies, because copies are free (the proprietary way), but it does make sense to pay for the development of free software. The q

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Klotzner
Thanks for the links, your opinions and knowledge about this topic. This was really helpful, thanks a lot! Best regards, Robert >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

invest money in free software?

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Klotzner
On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 06:11:09 PM John Tapsell wrote: > I would really like to see bounties being raised for bugs. There > are a lot of problems with having bounties, and in the past such an > idea has been shot down, but maybe it's worth revisiting. If users > care about a bug bein