Quote from: novacadian on January 26, 2014, 10:47:47 PM

Quote from: sidhujag on January 26, 2014, 09:47:43 PM

Aah I see so that way people would come in with project requests that a developer would work on probably payment done via devcoin and its released under something like gpl where you can use it for profit but source is open.

After the source is created however what stops others from copying the idea? Today most people would not want to pay for something that someone else could end up using for free afterwards.

As mentioned it was only an off the top of my head example of thinking outside the box. However if we are to follow that thought then one would not be copying the idea but in fact encouraged to do so. There is also support, something which Red Hat earns good profit supplying. If you wanted a mod or help installing software on the Devcoin DVD then who would you go to? Our stable of developers of course! If the funds given out as bounties, now, were directed to software development for development sake then the content of the DVDs would grow. Version 1.0 release would not have X piece of software that only came out in Version 1.1.

As the library grows so too could the DVDs. There could be categories. DVCGames, DVCOffice, etc.

Again this is an off the top of my head idea. My point is that we should really try to think outside the box in where to take things and not try to mimic the commercial nature of software development which, generally, has the developers on the lowest rung of earnings when what they are creating is, often, the only reason there are earnings in the first place.

- Nova

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This is very true its what led me to buy gpl code for wordpress templates.. you get latest greatest. The model is being used and it works.. gives a good impression too.