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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation
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[ Voting ]
> 
> Question: How will it generate work?

What is the purpose of the voting mechanism if not to change the current
focus of developers?

If your answer is that somehow voting will somehow increase the number
of developers, then you are completely ignoring history.  Voting simply
puts decisions in the hands of the voters, but it does *nothing* with
regard to getting more people doing the work, rather the opposite is
true.

So, if voting is to have any effect it either will pull the current
developers off their existing 'projects' which they do for fun, or cause
them to add more projects, which in either cause will cause them to
either jump ship, ignore the vote (thus making the vote useless), or get
burned out quicker.

There is absolutely *NO* reward for agreeing to implement what the users
vote for.



Nate