[OSM-dev] X-Prizes
SteveC
steve at asklater.com
Tue Mar 18 17:06:32 GMT 2008
On 18 Mar 2008, at 17:03, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Anyone have any thoughts on
>> whether it would fly?
>
> It might but I fear that the coding community would be adversely
> affected to a point where people don't work unless paid, or "free
> time" programmers get shot down for taking away cash from others,
> whatever. Currently if someone says he's working on <subject> and
> he's not fast enough for my taste, I can just implement it faster;
> if money and prizes come into play, this makes me the evil guy who
> has taken away "his" money (even more so if he should have spoken
> about his work on the list beforehand)... all sorts of potential
> problems.
are there examples of where this has happened in other projects?
maybe, if this is the case, then only small bug bounties should be
offered.
have fun,
SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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