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Re:Ruby hacker proposes to quit his job and work only on OSS... by utnick on Monday March 03, 2008 @02:23PM (#128238)
I think this model would work better if he wanted to take time off to start up and develop a new OSS project.

I can see a lot of people donating to get 'Some really cool project' built.

But I doubt that faster bug fixes and improved documentation in open source reporting software is worth 60$ to too many people if you take away the feel good factor of donating to open source

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Re:Ruby hacker proposes to quit his job and work only on OSS... by jmelesky on Monday March 03, 2008 @03:49PM (#128317)
On the other hand, i certainly know of businesses using open source projects that would happily pay someone external to fix a bug or add a feature to a given project. Why they wouldn't just assign one of their own developers is a mystery, but that's the way it is.
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Re:Ruby hacker proposes to quit his job and work only on OSS... by boucher on Monday March 03, 2008 @04:25PM (#128337)
There are plenty of businesses that do pay people to work on various open source projects. Google, Apple, IBM, possibly even Microsoft.
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