[josm-dev] JOSM donations?

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Paul Hartmann wrote:

after this is mainly flaming against me and no longer private I may 
answer.

>>> And "own server" - you know what I think about JOSM being more and more a
>>> client to some JOSM server somewhere. I'd like to get rid of the server
>>> instead of building up even more capacity which will doubtless be filled by
>>> you with lots of clever Python contraptions that nobody else can maintain.
>>>
>>> Exactly, for god's sake, don't put stoeckr in a position where he can hack
>> up even more Perl spagetti, which is closed source for "security reasons".

I still don't know what your problem is Karl. You have been a valuably 
contributor in the past but as soon as not everything went the way you 
wanted it, you went mad.

It is an accident this text got to the mailing list, but actually I find 
it rather strange, that you send flames to Paul, but never had the courage 
to contact me.

>>> Instead of "collect money then see how we spend it", I'd suggest "define
>>> what we want, find out what it costs, then ask people to donate to
>>> OSM/FOSSGIS for that specific cause". - If a cause can be found that is
>>> worth spending money on, and I'm not convinced yet.
>>>
>>> Exactly, there is clearly potential for payed work from which both a
>> potential sponsor and the community benefits, without the community to be
>> compromised. It is possible, we've all done this in the past, but I very
>> much doubt that it would be possible again, if stoeckr was involved

Well, what do you refer to? I only know one time when we had something 
like this in the past and this is turnrestrictions plugin. And actually 
this is an example which shows the opposite:

The author got money for it, but he no longer cares about. The plugin was 
abandoned shortly after it has been created. Nobody does necessary bug 
fixes ATM.

So this is an argument for Frederik, who says that bounties wont work.

Ciao
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