Fw: Adding a kernel removal script to linux-base or elsewhere
Jarno Suni
j_suni at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jan 13 17:29:35 UTC 2017
> On Friday, January 13, 2017 5:55 PM, Jarno Suni <j_suni at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On Friday, October 14, 2016 2:13 AM, Alberto Salvia Novella
> <es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Well, better to fix a thousand computers for the same effort than
>> servicing yours alone.
>
> If you get money for fixing each computer individually, i.e. supporting each
> client individually, it might be a better deal for you not to provide a fix that
> services them all publicly.
>
>> In the end of the day I need the fix for myself. Why not sharing it
>> then, so it becomes available in any computer from now on?
>
> Everybody gets fixes that are publicly available, but only contributors pay by
> their work. It is not supportive that the more you contribute, the poorer you
> get.
>
>
>> That said I believe that, in general, one shall only work in what gives
>> good money. Because if it's that valuable to somebody, they will be
>> willing to pay for it.
>>
>> Just this case is an exception. As the diversity of contributions makes
>> it difficult to monetize, it's a byproduct of fixing yourself, and you
>> get already a different kind of value: the most powerful computing it
>> can be.
>
>
> Maybe an association, that had many members, could direct funding to wanted
> Ubuntu software projects to make Ubuntu and/or its variations greater. The
> amount of money requested from each member would not be big.
>
More information about the Ubuntu-devel-discuss
mailing list