On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> I have devised a preliminary compensation scheme for authors of
> open source software based on the songwriter royalties model.
>
> Yes, let's use the music industry to model how we compensate people
> for their works, they schemes have an excellent track record
Heh, you'd end up OWING money to the users, because of the
value of bugreports, paying for the download infrastructure
and rental of users' screen space ;)
Rik
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