Re: Would you like to work on improving Emacs full time?

[Tom]

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 
> Crowdfunding based on paying for specific features does not require
> that the same few people spend full time writing one feature after
> another, full time.  If there are 10 people, each of whom writes a
> feature every 6 months, that would add up to substantial contribution.
>

Yes, they don't have to be the same people.

I guess most developers who will work in this model will
implement some feature which he himself also needs (so it will be
scratching his own and others' itch with crowdfunding) in several
months and then goes back to his regular job.