So I think my vote should be "shifted", cause I would donate much more for keeping our infrastructure alive and happy, but *not* for actual development "goal", to "contract" programmers on it. It's *not* what about FOSS is. Money is required, sure - for keeping infrastructure, "platform" for talented developers, testers, and users. To make possibilities. What you're proposing thebtman, is to switch for commercial approach, with just many small investors, instead of one/two big ones. // Edit to make things clear - donating for great people here and great projects like H-E-N, CSSU, power kernel or whatsnot - all is ok. Paying some regular programmer, without any ties with Maemo, to do coding job for maemo - not. Such a person wil ldo her/his "work", then leave, without a chance for fixing bugs, enhancing functionality etc. Normal in closed source world, but in Open world, its called "Dead project" Even when we could have sources, someone willing to just earn money and make it as fast as possible, will leave code mess (for example, check how HAM works, and compare it to fapman...)