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From: Kuba Ober <ober.14@osu.edu>
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:32:32 -0500
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X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 model:01 cheers:01 bram:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 suggesting:02 fewer:02 sell:96 sell:96 unit:03 aka:04 scheme:05 economy:94 

On Wednesday 30 January 2008, David Allsopp wrote:
> > It would make sense as a business venture when you'd throw in some
> > economy of scale. MS can sell visual studio for peanuts, and keep that
> > business unit out of the red, of course because they sell so many.
> >
> > For relatively small projects like OCaml, any "pay for a feature" scheme
> > would necessarily be out of reach of many customers.
>
> Vim does this very well with "sponsor a feature"[1] - all you need is a
> structured wish-list that people can mark a (financial) interest in. That
> way, if you want a feature, and so do other people, then there may be
> enough combined sponsorship to pay a (reasonable) amount for it. Bram only
> requires enough to pay for a basic salary so he can take time off work.
>
> While I have no idea how many people use Vim, I would imagine that it's
> rather fewer than MS Visual Studio suggesting that the finance model
> "works".

Yeah, if you have a "feature accounts" where people can pool the money, then 
of course it'd work.

My assumption was that one person pays for a single feature.

Cheers, Kuba