I wonder how many people have noticed that this link is to a CUBAN Linux site?
I've read some place I can't remember that they're putting a lot of effort into computing and science, specially in primary schools. Some cuban students recently won medals in the Chemistry Olympics.
Maybe they'll invite Fotini Makropolou Kalamara someday. Being Greek and/or Canadian she certainly could travel there if she wanted, something which the US government doesn't permit to Americans.
How many times have we heard developers say: I'm doing this for free, because I feel like it and it's none of your business telling me what YOU want ME to do. FUCK OFF!
I think this could be a great way to get developers interested in things the users want like good GUIs, better usability, better manuals, Wizards. We users could set up projects and stock them up with money to stimulate developers which could compete with each other to see who gets it. The Free Software Foundation could administer the prize money to see that there are no scams or to redirect it (with previous consent of the clients) if there are no takers or the project dies for some other reason.
This could even work as a project inside a distribution like Mandrake or Lycoris. I'm sure there would be a lot of ideas on how to do this!
There would be a far better interaction between users and developers than what is even thinkable with closed-source software. I think that for a fraction of what we pay for closed source, we would get in much shorter time greatly superior OS Software.
I think this could be the missing link for letting OOS fly and fly away!
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I wonder how many people have noticed that this link is to a CUBAN Linux site?
I've read some place I can't remember that they're putting a lot of effort into computing and science, specially in primary schools. Some cuban students recently won medals in the Chemistry Olympics.
Maybe they'll invite Fotini Makropolou Kalamara someday. Being Greek and/or Canadian she certainly could travel there if she wanted, something which the US government doesn't permit to Americans.
Well I did read the Kamasutra and I still don't know a fucking shit about Linux.
How many times have we heard developers say: I'm doing this for free, because I feel like it and it's none of your business telling me what YOU want ME to do. FUCK OFF!
I think this could be a great way to get developers interested in things the users want like good GUIs, better usability, better manuals, Wizards. We users could set up projects and stock them up with money to stimulate developers which could compete with each other to see who gets it. The Free Software Foundation could administer the prize money to see that there are no scams or to redirect it (with previous consent of the clients) if there are no takers or the project dies for some other reason.
This could even work as a project inside a distribution like Mandrake or Lycoris. I'm sure there would be a lot of ideas on how to do this!
There would be a far better interaction between users and developers than what is even thinkable with closed-source software. I think that for a fraction of what we pay for closed source, we would get in much shorter time greatly superior OS Software.
I think this could be the missing link for letting OOS fly and fly away!