Re: Pay for patch/enancement idea (was Re: [bitplan] Re: AW: Fork proposal)

On 05/03/06, Russell Gold <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 4, 2006, at 3:31 AM, Wolfgang Fahl wrote:
>
> > Russell wrote:
> >> If anyone has suggestions for how that can change, I
> >> am all ears.
> > How about a "pay per patch" approach. Anybody who
> > wants a bugfix says how much it is worth for him. Then
> > people can decide how much money they can make by
> > submitting a patch and eventually that will happen if
> > the bids are high enough.
> >
> > For instance I consider the two patches I did worth
> > $200 - I'd give them to the thread for free since I
> > fixed things myself but I would have paid $200 if
> > somebody else did it.
>
> Now that is very intriguing. The mechanics could be interesting.
> Anybody else have any thoughts on this? Would you be willing to pay
> for modifications? Submit them if there was bidding on them?
>

Isn't that just an open-source business model? The source is available
to say, JBOSS, but a company might engage a JBOSS expert / community
member to provide value-added functionality, rather than having to
understand the source themselves.

> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> > P.S.:
> >
> > What a coincidence - I just talked to my wife this
> > morning what a pitty it is that there has been no
> > update of httpunit for so long and that it really
> > feels strange to have patches for it in my own system
> > that don't make it to the main thread (The mailthread
> > with  you on this issue is open now for allmost a year
> > and I didn't get to work on it again).
> >
> >
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