Re: [opensuse] KDE3-4 did teams change?

On Sunday 07 December 2008, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2008 20:10:46 schrieb Tero Pesonen:
This is not something the KDE developers need to bother with.
They're not selling anything, after all.

And you are not buying it.

I'd buy if I were able to.

There are bountys that you and/or others could use to get features
into KDE/any open source project. Suppose there are 100 users that
need a feature really bad and each of them donates 10 Euro, that
would certainly increase the chances of getting some feature
implemented.

I will have to Google on this. I've never heard of such bounties. In the
past, developers have told me they do what they do for free, but so
that they only do what they find interesting, and no more.

If schools/governments would stick to this, they could
save a lot of money on MS licences.

I doubt the people purchasing software for the school district go voting
at dot kde org on bugs or features that someone might fix or implement
someday. They bid for the contract, setting specific requirements, and
see what is offered and for what price.

MS thrives in such an environment, of course, as it is easy for them to
sell a package that conforms to all the requirements and standards set
by the bidder. "See, even the poor-sighted student can run Office on XP
in this neat high-contrast mode. Now compare this to this opensource
stuff, running here on this other laptop. Here, as you can see, the
Office suite starts behaving in this weird way when you try to run it
in a similar mode... and look at this application here: Every other
item in the menu has become, for a reason unknown, white-on-white,
rendering the text illegible, while every other one is black as
expected. Weird, huh?" And so on.

Regards,
Tero Pesonen
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