Re: RE: Zend +Paypal = PEAR::SOAP??

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:27 -0400, George Schlossnagle wrote: > On Jun 21, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Helgi Þormar wrote: > > > > Sometimes I think we forgot the issue of a company/person that want X > > feature, that's worth maybe 100 - 200$, for real who wants to send > > out a > > invoice for such a petty amount ? :) > > After taxes and things like that you end up with maybe 3/4 or half of > > the original amount. > > > > Think we could/should take up the bounty approach of Horde and other > > projects and allow the given developer to pick if the company pays > > money > > (with all the tax fun) or just make the company buy something from the > > developers wishlist, we really have to get the wishlist more out > > rather > > then thinking about money, most of the time getting couple of books + > > cd's + dvd beats the hell out of taking the invoice road (of course > > only > > talking about for the smaller amounts). > > As a owner of a company that feeds almost 25 families and makes good > money fixing bugs in other people's PHP code and PHP extensions > (amongst other things), I invite you to not be my advocate in this. > You're underselling yourself, and destroying the market for > yourself. I'd say that you were destroying the market for all of us, > but fortunately that doesn't seem to be the case. Somehow I think you only have something bad to say about this :-) I'm talking about small features worth 100 - 200 dollars not something more, and no I'm not under selling me, small features are small features and doing something open source is in most of the cases is something you do for fun, outside of work time and thus often the person in question does not have the means to do things legally (tax wise), which of course the buyer wants and so buying gifts in those little cases is good IMHO. I am also a owner of a company but well the thread isn't about boosting who feeds more people ;), it's about couple of ways for OS devs to get paid for their hobby work from companies or individuals, be it with money or gifts, I for one see nothing wrong with getting 200 dollars worth of books instead of 200 dollars, but ohh well so it goes. As said earlier by my self, we already have wishlists + email form so developers can be easily contacted so both options are open (giving gifts and get in touch with devs to talk about bigger features and/or money payments/contracts) so I doubt we need to add anything more, plus we already have this page here: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/developers.supporting.php - Helgi