[Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

[Domen Kožar]

There are lots of debates how enterprises should/could fund open source
instead of expecting free labor, but we're not there yet :-)

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:

> On 15-12-07 04:36pm, Tomasz Czyż wrote:
> > https://www.bountysource.com/search?query=nixos - maybe this is good
> > enough, no? Just needs a little more advertisement :-)
>
> My problem with Bountysource is that most bounties are a flipping joke
> compared to what someone would earn in even badly paid jobs in the
> industry.
>
> I mean, take a (small) hourly rate of maybe 30€.
>
> “Getting rid of the Perl dependency”: Without true knowledge of the
> internals,
> I’d estimate 100–1000 hours of work. That’s ~10k€–30k€. The bounty is 250€.
> nixos-assimilate: aszlig has put in at least 50–100 hours of work. And I’m
> sure
> aszlig takes more than 30€/hour for his day job. That’s ~5k€. The bounty
> is $50.
>
>
> People need to get real. Software companies need to get real. If they need
> good
> systems, the should start to invest. Now. Big time. At least 10% of their
> money.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
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