[LAU] How can we convert money to fixing bugs in software?

Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 10:41:19 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Paul Davis wrote:

> sites like this are NOT the solution in my opinion. we do not need more
> middle men involved in the process of moving whatever revenue might
> potentially flow between users and developers. what we do need is a better
> banking system that makes person-to-person transfers easy, cheap (preferably
> zero cost) and fast. this will not come from the world of geeks, nerds and
> open source enthusiasts - the banking sector is controlled by a different
> set of people with a different set of interests. clearly, in europe are
> already significantly better in many respects that relate to this. but in
> the US such transfers are absurdly hard. and crossing borders between
> currencies is still subject to absurd conversion fees (which do have a
> little justification because of the fluctuation risk posed to whoever
> participates).

Hmm, what _I_ always thought was needed is team members who can think
in terms of sustainable business models and management.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org


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