Re-2: [pilot-db-list] Devs needing PDAs to test / Donations?

[<hol...@di...>]

I agree completely with Marc's views. 

Marc - Once again I would like to thank you for all the effort 
you put into the program - in spite of the tons of mails of 
criticism (including mine) - or rather demands.

I wish you all the best for the future.

> This idea was the first idea of the Open-Source development, 
> but the minds change.

Yes, but this seems to be the trend!

The next step will be including Ad's instead of donations, and 
then sponsors and finally some commercial exploiters declaring
OpenSource as being illegal and then taking over.

Look at Napster!

If contribution to the community is replaced by money, then it
not the kind of community I would like to invest my time in!

Sorry for getting philosophical and sentimental.

Hans

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [pilot-db-list] Devs needing PDAs to test / Donations? (03-Mai-2004 19:51)
From:    mar...@la...
To:      hol...@di...

> 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 
> Open-Source software, and i don't give never money. My
> retribution to the community was Pilot-DB. My idea is when you
> are able give a part of your work to the community, that is
> the retribution. This idea was the first idea of the
> Open-Source development, but the minds change.
> 
> To make money with Pilot-DB, i implemented the plugin feature.
> Everybody can make a Plugin and sell it to anotherone. There
> is no rule on this part. 
> 
> After if you donate, how do you redistribute the money? How
> can you tell 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 with the users and
> you certify that you will maintain Pilot-DB in the future.
> 
> 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 projects but not as maintainer), now all is complete
> for me. When i maintained Pilot-DB, I asked more and more
> help, and i find that i didn't receive enought help (i thank
> again everybody who help me, Hans, Scott, documentation
> writters, translation writters, beta-testers... ), i spent to 
> much time to answer to the e-mails.
> 
> Salut,
> Marc.

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