On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 16:01 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote:
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Krishnakant hackingkk@gmail.com wrote:
For example, GNUKhata, the project I initiated and Brought this far is now stable and ready for use, this happened due to the generous funding from NIXI and support of Comet. But now we will soon die out of funds and might not be able to sustain development at the current pase. Voluntary time given by a bunch of hackers can't make commertial quality software. So if we need high performance accurate and commertial grade free software, dedicated team has to work full-time and such a team can only work with some financial security.
Why you're worrying if project is really in good shape? If idea and code is good, I think it will survive without immediate financial support. Someone will definitely pick it up from where you left it...
Give me money or I'll stop contributing is horribly bad idea.
That's a bad idea if yoiu are doing some thing else for your livelyhood. And it particularly becomes difficult for people who don't want to take up any proprietory job on offer and then work on the free software project at their spare time.
I think it is "give me money so that I can contribute at top priority and dedicatedly". It is not "won't contribute ".
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.