FreeBSD Bounties

[james michael]

Hmm, well I guess I might have jumped the gun a bit. I can see how it 
could be useful. I don't really believe that open source software should 
have a price when it comes to drivers and things like that. There are a 
lot of sites like this one in the aspect of paying programmers to write 
software, none of them directed at any one OS. I don't see the point in 
directing this site to freebsd. All the freebsd drivers should be open 
source and Libra.

Victor Loureiro Lima wrote:
> Well, for something like Adobe Flash Player maybe this could be true, 
> but what if I want to be able to use my old and unsupported Network 
> Card on FreeBSD, maybe there are people willing to pay something for 
> that... I mean, just because something isnt working as expected in all 
> directions that doesnt mean it is completelly useless.
>
> cheers,
> Victor Lima
>
> 2009/3/5 james michael <jamesthefishy at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jamesthefishy at gmail.com>>
>
>     I find this completely useless as a site. No one is going to get
>     "flash 9 on freebsd with opera" for 200 dollars. I know people
>     will want to add bounties to it and it will be like 250 then like
>     300 and as time passes it will be a million dollars or such but I
>     don't think the problem is that people aren't willing to do the
>     work, its that places like adobe has closed its software so that
>     we can't really create anything.
>
>     Hywel Mallett wrote:
>
>         Over the last year or so I've seen a few references to
>         software bounties for FreeBSD, often with people commenting
>         that there is no way for people to pledge their support
>         (financial or otherwise), other than mailing lists and the like.
>         I decided I would bite the bullet, so I'm announcing
>         http://www.freebsdbounties.info
>         It's very early in the site's lifecycle, but hopefully it will
>         become a valuable resource.
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