Re: Idea for pearweb

Hi, Martin Jansen wrote:

On Fri Jan 24, 2003 at 04:0656PM +0100, Michael Bretterklieber wrote:

The FreeBSD Project does this. They have a FreeBSD Foundation wich collects donations, and they then give the money (or hardware) to the developers. The FreeBSD Foundation is a non profit organization and therefore they don't pay so much taxes.

Please don't overestimate PEAR's position in comparison to other open This was just an example to show up how other Open Source projects earns their money.

source projects: FreeBSD plays a much more important role nowadays and they have really good reasons for having such a donation system. Of course PEAR has not the same role as FreeBSD yet.

Having such a system for PEAR will make the project look bigheaded, since we simply aren't playing in the same league than Linux, BSD and a few other projects yet. :-(

I think the system with the wishlists is ok, but it needs more PR. I don't think that any user who has downloaded a very useful package buys the developer a thing from his wishlist, only if he has problems or if he needs support maybe then he is willing to buy something. Maybe we can add a second way for providing support. The user must buy something from the wishlist of the developer for getting this type of support, but then he has guaranteed support within 24 hours or something like that. bye, -- ------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Michael Bretterklieber - Michael.Bretterklieber@jawa.at JAWA Management Software GmbH - http://www.jawa.at Liebenauer Hauptstr. 200 -------------- privat --------------- A-8041 GRAZ GSM: ++43-(0)676-93 96 698 Tel: ++43-(0)316-403274-12 E-mail: michael@bretterklieber.com Fax: ++43-(0)316-403274-10 http://www.bretterklieber.com ------------------------------- ------------------------------------- "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972