From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 5 20:46:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A071065676 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:46:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hywel@hmallett.co.uk) Received: from lisbon.directrouter.com (lisbon.directrouter.com [72.249.30.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4F38FC20 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:46:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hywel@hmallett.co.uk) Received: from hmallett.plus.com ([81.174.158.104] helo=[192.168.0.10]) by lisbon.directrouter.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LfKSW-0008W2-68; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:46:24 -0600 Message-Id: From: Hywel Mallett To: james michael In-Reply-To: <49B02F3E.9040002@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:46:22 +0000 References: <2E84A46F-C21C-43F3-AF2E-2B8115A0B888@hmallett.co.uk> <49B02F3E.9040002@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - lisbon.directrouter.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - hmallett.co.uk X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Bounties X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:46:27 -0000 On 5 Mar 2009, at 19:59, james michael wrote: > I find this completely useless as a site. No one is going to get > "flash 9 on freebsd with opera" for 200 dollars. I know people will > want to add bounties to it and it will be like 250 then like 300 and > as time passes it will be a million dollars or such but I don't > think the problem is that people aren't willing to do the work, its > that places like adobe has closed its software so that we can't > really create anything. The scope of a bounty could be far wider than to get proprietary software to work with FreeBSD. It just happens that the two bounties so far are for compatibility with proprietary softwares. For example, UFS quotas hadn't been updated to take account of large filesystems, so a bounty was offered, the fixes were made, and the bounty was claimed. The changes have gone back into the FreeBSD source (I think - they were certainly due to), so the FreeBSD project has benefited, and the bounty offerer and bounty hunter have benefited too. Of course if there's not enough incentive for some things, or they are too hard or simply unfeasible, they won't happen. But bear in mind that bounties do get offered, and they do get fulfilled. Hywel