Re: [pilot-db-list] Devs needing PDAs to test / Donations?

[marc\.chalain <mar...@la...>]

Like all others people who worked on the project, i think i
must give my=
 point of view.
I'm not as radical as Hans but my idea is closed. I use=0D
=
Open-Source software, and i don't give never money. My
retribution to th=
e community was Pilot-DB. My idea is when you
are able give a part of yo=
ur work to the community, that is
the retribution. This idea was the fir=
st idea of the
Open-Source development, but the minds change.

To make=
 money with Pilot-DB, i implemented the plugin feature.
Everybody can ma=
ke a Plugin and sell it to anotherone. There
is no rule on this part.=0D
=

After if you donate, how do you redistribute the money? How
can you te=
ll this personn worked more than this one? And if
you receive money and =
you stop to contribute to the project,
the new maintainer works for you =
wallet? I think he will not
like that. And i think you make a contract w=
ith the users and
you certify that you will maintain Pilot-DB in the fut=
ure.

If Nathan want to be retribute, he can. For myself, i don't
want=
 money. I paid my Open-Source contribution (but i continue
in others pro=
jects but not as maintainer), now all is complete
for me. When i maintai=
ned Pilot-DB, I asked more and more
help, and i find that i didn't recei=
ve enought help (i thank
again everybody who help me, Hans, Scott, docum=
entation
writters, translation writters, beta-testers... ), i spent to=0D
=
much time to answer to the e-mails.

Salut,
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