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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/17/2012 08:59 AM, Fabio Varesano wrote:
>> To summarize, we are not short on ideas.  I think sometimes new users come into use of a
>> project and just assume that the reason a feature is not there is because nobody has
>> thought of it.  However, more often than not, it is a lack of "qualified developer
>> man-hours", which typically are not free.  And when they do become available, need to be
>> thought of as financial contributions in and of themselves, even no money has changed hands.
> If money is the problem for not having qualified developers hours, 

Let there be absolutely no friggin doubt, it no longer needs to be considered a
possibility.  Consider it a fact.


> why 
> don't you developers ask users to financially contribute for a feature?
>
> You decide one of the most critical/appealing missing feature, then 
> you decide how much money implementing that would take (men hours * 
> hourly rate) and then ask the community to donate for that. There are 
> webapps that also helps you collecting the money, eg 
> http://www.chipin.com/
>
> I've seen this working in many other free software projects, I don't 
> see why it couldn't work with KiCad.
>
> I'd surely would donate towards push routing and distributed databases..
>
> FV
>
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