Hello, Recently, we discussed on this list my "Open Source Funding" idea. In summary, I thought it would be fair to change the binary license to require for-profit organizations to pay for binary copies of Bacula code that we prepare and they download. The purpose was to collect money to be able to pay programmers to implement more features in Bacula.
After a lot of discussion and reading several articles submitted by users, I have abandoned this idea because paying for projects seems to squeeze out free contributions to projects in favor of paid workers, and this is not something that interests me at all. Ideas such as Landon's data encryption project, are an exception to this, and I am very pleased, because Landon has succeeded in reaching is target (or nearly so) of $3000 of donations to the EFF in the name of the Bacula project. I don't see this kind of project as squeezing out free contributions, and would like to see additional Bacula projects of a similar nature. Since I began the Bacula project in January 2000, I have been personally supporting approximately $8000 per year expense for the project, mostly, hardware, communications costs, electricity and license fees (good old Microsoft). I am happy to have been able to support these expenses and have no plans to be reimbursed. However, in order to assure the long term survival of the project (without me 5-10 years from now), I believe it is time for Bacula to begin paying its own way, with contributions made by satisfied users. To accomplish this I have opened a PayPal account for the Bacula project that will allow any of you who wish to contribute. For more details please follow the "Donations" link found in the Support section on the main Bacula Web page (http://www.bacula.org). -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
