Thread: Would you be willing to donate $10 for Maemo?
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2011-09-11 , 09:34
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Originally Posted by Hootenholler View Post
In a word? No. $1500 is optimistic. $15k is fantasy.
No, no, look at the poll.At the time of writing, there're 112 Yes. So thats $1120. Plus abill's 2000$, already we have $3000!

Originally Posted by thebtman View Post
I'm totally baffled why anyone would refuse to give $10 (£6.50).
This is a poll right? If you didn't think anybody would say no, then why did u put the option in the poll? Most of hem have already mentioned their reason for not donating. Gotta accept that and move on...

Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
I am throwing negativity here as well but i AM a realist and as much as i truly love the device the key lies with Nokia so there is the direction you must approach at some point.
As Time and again it has been mentioned, the Nokia way is pretty much a dead end. It HAS been tried many times. Nokia just doesn't have any incentive to open up Maemo. And surely, the peanuts that we collect from here (even IF $50 k), will not be enough to change their minds. So I beg you, start thinking alternatives, stop being fixated...

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
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...)
Yes I understand the folly of this option. It JUST wont work. Neither is it feasible, nor is it the correct philosophy.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
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.
This is surely a very important thing for us, to keep the infrastructure alive. But we have time. Like timoph said, we don't need to pass around the hat just yet. We have atleast a year left.


So, now lets think alternative ideas. Take this as a brainstorming session also.

How about if we make a fund and use this money as an incentive for developers to write Open Source replacements for the Closed Source bits (like calender, phone-ui, microB, Media Player, etc)?

We could hold monthly awards of $500 or so for each Open Source replcaements...? That would encourage somebody to take their time to write good replacement apps.

As a user, I not really interested in getting all these packages replaced with OS replacements. I am just interested in a few packages in that list like calender, calender-ui, hildon-im-* (vkbd), imageviewer, addressbook, call-ui, mediaplayer, browser, etc
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