On 3/14/11, Martin Owens wrote:
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 22:29 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Note that Blender is very different from Inkscape in terms of how much money you as a user make on a project involving Inkscape and a project involving Blender.
Money is interesting, so is opportunity.
I don't think putting a donate button on the website will do much as it doesn't offer much of an opportunity, nor does it set an expectation of _every_ user to invest in the project's future.
The Inkscape board can decide if raising that expectation is counter to the project's culture or stated aim.
You lost me there :) Opportunity? Expectations? Huh?
If user's pay you to do something, then you must do that thing.
Really? If a user says "Here is my 20 bucks, now you clone AI's user interface", must I still do it? Exactly why? :)
job required a whole bunch of background work, then you do that too and make sure to price it in. If the user's can't meet the price then the work can't be done.
If programmer can't properly price their work, then that's an issue of understanding what they have to do. Having a special generic fund for special people who do research and write proposals and little else, works in other organisational fields.
I'm afraid you are missing what I previously wrote: the committee is *dead* against paid development. Now, *I* am all in favour of it, but I don't make decisions.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org