On 27 Jul 2002, Federico Ferreres wrote:
> The fGPL scheme means you pay $10, and you get code in exchange. The
> developer receiving the funds either buys food, a computer, a book, or
> maybe even uses it for a nice trip with his/her family after their hard
> work is done. Let me know when you find the pyramid!
Sigh... That stops working at the same point where pyramid does - when
number of recepients becomes a sufficiently large fraction of all potential
participants. It is not sustainable.
Simple math: Debian got several thousand developers. Most of the packages
contain both contributions from said developers and stuff from upstream.
By very conservative estimates it's tens of thousands. If your $10 is
per package update - it's impossible to pay. _Really_ impossible - on a
reasonable system it will easily amount to $50 _daily_. If it's $10 per
year - count the number of installations and look how much it will give
for one developer.
It won't work for the same reason why pyramids are unsustainable - when
you have too many recepients, both go to hell. And there _is_ too many
for that to work.
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