Thread: Developer Compensation Models
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2010-12-29 , 22:23
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Recently a community developer released a wireless driver patch that allows, among other things, packet injection. The developer is requiring a donation of no fixed amount to receive the software. It does not reside in the usual repositories. Agree or disagree with the reasons for this it is not the only model for receiving donations I've seen.

Another major break-through piece of work in this community was fral's fMMS. Frals requested donations on his blog and released the software into the repositories. This worked for me. I got the software (started with version 0.32) and he got a donation.

A lot of what is done in this community is based on trust. We trust that there was a non-payment situation with this developer and the packet-injection feature requestor. I am tickled to see absolutely no one called this into question. I believe the developer should trust that this community will donate for his work if they have it, use it and see the value of it. But I may be damning the developer to a life of uncompensated work with this attitude.

I throw this out for discussion here so as to not bog down the wireless driver thread any more than it already is with discussion of donation models, payment schemes and the like.

So, how to compensate our hard working developers?
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