Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:07:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:07:29 -0400 Received: from 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.225]:5829 "EHLO 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:07:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 21:12:46 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: "David S. Miller" cc: rickh@Capaccess.org, Subject: Re: an open letter to George Soros In-Reply-To: <20021004.160411.38314828.davem@redhat.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 911 Lines: 25 On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > I have devised a preliminary compensation scheme for authors of > open source software based on the songwriter royalties model. > > Yes, let's use the music industry to model how we compensate people > for their works, they schemes have an excellent track record Heh, you'd end up OWING money to the users, because of the value of bugreports, paying for the download infrastructure and rental of users' screen space ;) Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/