Let me know what you find out.<br><br>Right now I'm hiring some guys in India to do work for me that I'm open sourcing[1].<br><br>The end product will use the tools that they're writing, but the whole technology community will benefit from having these tools (which will in turn generate more tools that I may end up using for my product).<br>
<br>I would be very willing to hire someone to create just about every component of my product as an open source module and then tie the modules together myself with a UI.<br><br clear="all">AJ ONeal<br><br>[1] <a href="https://github.com/coolaj86/mtags">https://github.com/coolaj86/mtags</a> - Media Tags output as JSON for consumption by JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and all other sane languages that support JSON natively.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Thomas Koch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas@koch.ro">thomas@koch.ro</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Jimmy Kaplowitz:<br>
> Hi AJ,<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:16:20AM -0700, AJ ONeal wrote:<br>
> > I was thinking more along the lines of something like this:<br>
> ><br>
> > I suggest that a free software organization of some sort produce some<br>
> > sort of software.<br>
> > I donate the money necessary to fund the development of said software.<br>
> ><br>
> > I benefit from the donation, but so does everyone else.<br>
> ><br>
> > Perhaps there is no such organization currently in place.<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
while you're discussing this, may you also consider the opposite case? I'd<br>
like to work full time developing free software. People who pay me for this,<br>
should be able to deduct my payment from taxes.<br>
<br>
There'd need to be a charity which employs me. Maybe the charity would need to<br>
restrict it's services only to other charities for this model to work.<br>
<br>
I'll be funemployed from march next year and plan to discuss this question<br>
with a local tax officer. I live in Switzerland a few meters away from the<br>
German border.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
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Thomas Koch, <a href="http://www.koch.ro" target="_blank">http://www.koch.ro</a><br>
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