On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:01 AM, satyaakam goswami satyaakam@gmail.comwrote:
Totally agreed.
For example, GNUKhata, the project I initiated and Brought this far is now stable and ready for use, this happened due to the generous funding from NIXI and support of Comet. But now we will soon die out of funds and might not be able to sustain development at the current pase. Voluntary time given by a bunch of hackers can't make commertial quality software. So if we need high performance accurate and commertial grade free software, dedicated team has to work full-time and such a team can only work with some financial security.
Developers and marketing roles have to be seperate again find the meaning in what you are doing how you are going to ease the pain of the customers so that ultimately he hooks with you and signs you up i mean by paying. It more complicated in Bazzar model than that actually on a second thought.
I think there might be many such projects which need such support and the proposed idea is not bad at all.
yes there are but they will all be competing for the same pie.
-Satya
and forget to mention these are the the real hacks in world we survive.
Happy Hacking!!
-Satya