I like the idea but it doubt that anyone would be that generous. But at this point i would donate Xpert 128 to someone so they could write drivers for i am that desperate for drivers for it. Alex :) Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Friday 12 October 2001 14:50 pm, Martin Webster wrote:
Open Source is community. That means everyone contributes. Even though I may not be able to contribute in the way some do (Don Sanders, Waldo Bastian et al, for example who author KMail) I can exchange £50 for a boxed distribution every so often (not necessarily every version) and help others getting started.
I've always thought that there should be some sort of 'fund' that people could contribute to... a fund that could, for example, purchase that 'new widget card' that not many people need but a driver author for it could be found. Buy the card, give it to that person, let them write a driver and the card either goes to the author or could be given to the next person to add to the driver or who becomes the maintainer. It would cost each of us pennies... and would probably make Linux advance faster.
And a better idea would be to have each distro contribute a $1 of each purchase price to the fund.
Just my $.02US
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