"hacking the social system"

James Richard Tyrer tyrerj at acm.org
Sat Apr 30 08:39:14 CEST 2005


Jesse Haubrich wrote:
> How about a bounty system?  If a user wants something done they can
> offer a bounty.  The committee can establish a forum to handle the
> exchange of communication and money between users and developers.
> 
> Praise is a good thing, but I'm not sure it's the motivational force for
> most developers?

I believe that B. F. Skinner would strongly disagree with you.

IAC, the bounty system isn't what I had in mind since it would actually 
be part of the existing system.  And, I don't see why we should pay 
developers to have their apps conform to the KDE UI Standards.

-- 
JRT


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