licensing *sigh* (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] US$200 bounty for*paging feature)

[Race Vanderdecken]

I guess we are not thinking about the global extent of asterisk.

$200 in a "third world" would be great money. You can almost buy a Dell
computer for that much.

But this is more like a $200 bounty to design, build and replace your
Yugo engine with a Ferrari engine. And I only get the money if and when
the customer is satisfied.

I guess the Bounty poster does not understand "You get what you pay
for."

Add a couple of zeroes and bring the big guns out of the woodwork.

Race "Mutiny on the Bounty Tyrant" Vanderdecken

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Fielding
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:01 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: licensing *sigh* (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] US$200 bounty
for*paging feature)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "snacktime" <snacktime at gmail.com>
>  At $200 someone might be
> willing to do the work if they know it's going to be open source, but
> if it's a work for hire, $200 is extremely paltry.

I'm with you on that one.  $200 might be an acceptable bounty to give 
someone a bit of added incentive to contribute something to the
community, 
but if the code is closed source and owned by the purchaser, than $200
won't 
even buy a day's worth of real coding.   If you want to own it, you
don't 
put out a bounty, you're hiring a programmer, and paying
appropriately...

regards,

Paul



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