Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 11:36 +, silvio grosso wrote: > In my opinion, it is always a bit "tricky" to ask about donating money > for Open-source developers. > Some users assume that Open-source softwares must be always developed > and released for free. Often people assume that because they miss

Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Luca De Marini wrote: just a curiosity. Why do they need money, or better, a certain amount of money? Are they using something like Rentacoder? Because if this is not the case, I do not understand the need for money. Let me take the case of the inline spellchecker that is now implemented in tr

Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
silvio grosso wrote: To sum up, if you wish to have a certain feature, money is often the best way to get it :-) Even in the Open-source world ;-) Excatly. Thanks for the explanation Silvio (and many thanks for your sponsorship). Abdel.

Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso
Hello everybody, I would like to add something about what Manveru explained about money and Open-source projects, that is: Manveru wrote: >A lot of open source developers are freelancers, >so they income depends on number of projects they are able to realize >for their clients. As you probab

Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso
Hello Luca, >Just a curiosity. Why do they need money, or better, a certain >amount of >money? Are they using something like Rentacoder? >Because if this is not the >case, I do not understand the need for >money. I am not a Lyx's developer, as a consequence I can't answer you. I have only donat

Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread Manveru
2009/7/9 Luca De Marini : > 2009/7/9 silvio grosso > > > just a curiosity. Why do they need money, or better, a certain amount of > money? Are they using something like Rentacoder? Because if this is not the > case, I do not understand the need for money. The answer is simple. A lot of open sourc

Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread Luca De Marini
2009/7/9 silvio grosso > > Hello everybody, > > For anyone interested in the option to compare two Lyx documents there is > the opportunity to donate some money to develop such feature. > The link in the Lyx webpage to get more information is: > http://www.lyx.org/Donate > This feature will be de

Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso
Hello everybody, For anyone interested in the option to compare two Lyx documents there is the opportunity to donate some money to develop such feature. The link in the Lyx webpage to get more information is: http://www.lyx.org/Donate This feature will be developed by Lyx's developers as soon a