On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kai Blin<[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 29 June 2009 01:22:00 Austin English wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Ben Klein<[email protected]> wrote: >> > 2009/6/29 Scott Ritchie <[email protected]>: >> >> Who would they give the money to, even if they wanted to give it to us? >> > >> > Codeweavers? >> >> Is a private for-profit company. >> >> Is there something wrong with putting it in the Wine development fund, >> under custody of the Software Freedom Conservancy? > > Yes. Realistically, there will be a contract involved regulating what needs to > be done to get the money. I very much doubt the government just go and drop > money on random paypal buttons and hope for the best. The way I've seen stuff > like this work before is that there's a call for bids from companies to > implement certain features in a piece of software, maybe with the requirement > at a reasonable effort to get the produced changes upstream.
Ah, misunderstood what you meant there. Eventually some sort of foundation would be the best thing to head toward, but that's a legal headache. -- -Austin
