[asterisk-biz] Bounties.

[Alex Balashov]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:

> 	This is open source. And an open community. Bounties are not "work 
> for hire" fees, where the bounty offerer gets any exclusive rights to 
> what the bounty produces.

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   This is true.  I realise there are other incentives.  But in that case,
just put out a request for a feature so that it can be filled by an
implementor that is driven by the same sorts of compulsions and 
motivations that incentivise open source development in general.  My 
thought was more that offering these kinds of sums - even if they are
token and symbolic - is fundamentally insulting.

   Nobody worth their salt is going to spend 3-4 hours implementing 
anything for $50.  If they are, it's for reasons altogether unrelated to 
the $50, in which case it ends up being essentially a waste of money and 
an unnecessary cosmetic enhancement to the requisition.

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