On 21 August 2010 00:52, Drechsel Wolf <edv-e@...2249...> wrote:
Is there a mechanism for that?
This mailing list can be used to find freelance developers, and www.kickstarter.com can be used to find people to pool money with. I am sure that if you post on mac-centric forums and general graphic design lists (and SVG lists that are not specific to free software) you can find enough users to fund what you want.
There's also the "GNU Herds" webapp for running a kickstarter service on free software :-)
Or is that idea completely against the spirit of open source?
No, free software is about freedom, not price; and there are many businesses that are built around the GPL.
You may find www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html interesting.
Free software = free market :-)
However, speaking only for myself, i am less interested in efforts to port Inkscape to Mac because they don't use OS X and would prefer that people switch to GNU/Linux :-)