Re: Code Bounty

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:36:54PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:

> Does the Hurd have a bounty-system? 
> 
> If not, would it be possible to add one? 

I'm a bit surprised that you of all people are suggesting this... I was
told that any proposals for bounty systems are regularily shot down in
KDE?

> Can the GNU project accept and manage the legal part of the bounties
> for the Hurd, or does the Hurd need its own legal entity for that? 

I talked to RMS a couple of months ago about the possibility for people
to donate to development of individual GNU projects through FSF, and he
didn't like it: He fears that this might reduce the amount of uncommited
donations to FSF, that can be used for campaigning, which he considers
more important nowadays than sponsoring actual development...

(He did seem willing though, if I understood him right, to indirectly
support projects through relatively inexpensive means like sponsoring
developer conferences.)

-antrik-