IB 2.4 Paid Release Survey

The purpose of any monetary help is less of a bribe and more of a way for
a programmer to be able to buy some time from other committments needed to
keep the lights on and food on the table.

In my opinion, a voluntary support or donation fund would probably not
violate any terms of the release being "free".

Donations could even go towards paying a part time programmer to work on
the code.

If the program never materializes then things can go to some other worthy
cause,

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Bounties have been demonstrated to work effectively.
Not sure how a bounty would be applied in this case.
Perhaps a bounty for a "release party"; for 2.4 bt the
authors could decide how to spend it or divvy it up.

--- Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzellqis.net&gt; wrote:

> The purpose of any monetary help is less of a bribe
>; and more of a way for
> a programmer to be able to buy some time from other
>; committments needed to
> keep the lights on and food on the table.
>
> In my opinion, a voluntary support or donation fund
> would probably not
> violate any terms of the release being "free".
&gt;
> Donations could even go towards paying a part time
> programmer to work on
> the code.
>;
> If the program never materializes then things can go
> to some other worthy
&gt; cause,

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Ciao Miller Daniel,

On 30-Giu-2006, you wrote:

> Bounties have been demonstrated to work effectively.
> Not sure how a bounty would be applied in this case.
>; Perhaps a bounty for a "release party"; for 2.4 bt the
> authors could decide how to spend it or divvy it up.

IBrowse is a commercial product. Bouties doesn't fits here and money, from what
i've understood, are not the main problem.

The main developer have (AFAIK) a good job and therefore free time is the problem
actually

>
> --- Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzellqis.net&gt; wrote:
&gt;
>>; The purpose of any monetary help is less of a bribe
>;> and more of a way for
>&gt; a programmer to be able to buy some time from other
>;> committments needed to
>&gt; keep the lights on and food on the table.
>>
>> In my opinion, a voluntary support or donation fund
>> would probably not
>&gt; violate any terms of the release being "free".
&gt;>
>> Donations could even go towards paying a part time
>> programmer to work on
>&gt; the code.
>;>
>> If the program never materializes then things can go
>&gt; to some other worthy
&gt;> cause,
&gt;
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