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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Midgley wrote: > I think that offering some money for (a plausible start/step on the > way/finishing/adding a feature to) GPL or other licenced software > that doesn't exist at present is a reasonable thing for an > individual to do. I've done it three times and been pleased with > the effect. Fair enough :) > A strength of the open source community is in making the individual > efforts of anarchists additive through social software - I suspect > that there is a possible highly effective class of applications for > this possible, but not yet elaborated or having met a critical mass > of users with a little spare money. > > Some avariety of escrow, or making a pledge at the pledgbank.org are > possible approaches. Interesting point vis-avis escrow. It would be nice, albeit rather unlikely, for all hardware OEMs, of chips etc, to make their specs available to an escrow agent. Then if a developer wants data on a specific item he/she doesn't have to chase the OEM as an individual, the escrow agent could be approached who would then advise the OEM of the request. That way the developers have a 'one-stop-shop' for technical specs and the OEMs don't get a stream of individual requests for X Y and Z. Also it would give the OEMs a better idea of the enduser base for their products. If they get no requests for info on X product they can be *fairly* safe in assuming it's not of interest. Conversely if they get a lot of requests they may consider direct help to the developer. > Let us distinguish the ideal from the pragmatic, and accept > instances of venial sin for convenience or pleasure, for the moment. This is one of those instances where I understood the words but the sentence escaped me ;) I think that was a 'yes'? Kind regards, Julian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFERO3zjs/5IBdCO1ERAjMyAJ410LGoX/5r/B+j5C5p3wDqox54LgCfTZg6 xXZnQ5mK7a4WKVa3Jh6vrMw= =bj4W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html