On Sunday 07 December 2008, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2008 20:10:46 schrieb Tero Pesonen:
This is not something the KDE developers need to bother with. They're not selling anything, after all.
And you are not buying it.
I'd buy if I were able to.
There are bountys that you and/or others could use to get features into KDE/any open source project. Suppose there are 100 users that need a feature really bad and each of them donates 10 Euro, that would certainly increase the chances of getting some feature implemented.
I will have to Google on this. I've never heard of such bounties. In the past, developers have told me they do what they do for free, but so that they only do what they find interesting, and no more.
If schools/governments would stick to this, they could save a lot of money on MS licences.
I doubt the people purchasing software for the school district go voting at dot kde org on bugs or features that someone might fix or implement someday. They bid for the contract, setting specific requirements, and see what is offered and for what price. MS thrives in such an environment, of course, as it is easy for them to sell a package that conforms to all the requirements and standards set by the bidder. "See, even the poor-sighted student can run Office on XP in this neat high-contrast mode. Now compare this to this opensource stuff, running here on this other laptop. Here, as you can see, the Office suite starts behaving in this weird way when you try to run it in a similar mode... and look at this application here: Every other item in the menu has become, for a reason unknown, white-on-white, rendering the text illegible, while every other one is black as expected. Weird, huh?" And so on. Regards, Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org