[conspire] (forw) [MaraDNS list] Why I won't use Flattr or another similar scheme

[Don Marti]

begin Nick Moffitt quotation of Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 06:56:22PM +0000:
> Don Marti:
> > begin Nick Moffitt quotation of Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:58:34PM +0000:
> > > Don Marti:
> > > > It would be fun to see a bug tracker/prediction market, where you
> > > > could trade on the likelihood of a bug being fixed.  Bug fixers
> > > > could make money by closing bugs on which they owned the "closed"
> > > > side of the contract.
> > > 
> > > Because if there's one thing the world doesn't have enough of, it's
> > > speculators.  
> > 
> > Could it use more former GNOME users blogging about how GNOME is not
> > fvwm?
> 
> You knew when you wrote the question that we have a surfeit of exactly
> that.

So why not take some of the effort put into writing
Usability Rants and rambling BTS comments, and turn
it into a price signal?  Instead of "FIX THIS OR
I'M INSTALLING (whatever old-school-looking window
manager is hot now)" let them put $2 on the bug?

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Don Marti                    
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dmarti at zgp.org