An Immodest Proposal for GCC Voting

Scott Robert Ladd coyote@coyotegulch.com
Fri Apr 2 13:03:00 GMT 2004


In light of the "it only gets done if it's paid for", I make the 
following proposal.

Charge for voting -- a poll tax, if you will.

That's right -- if I wanted to vote for bug #14468 (which sticks in my 
craw at the moment), I could attach a donation to said vote; the votes 
would then be weighed in importance by how much money was attached to them.

Whoever fixes the bug gets a "cut" of the attached dollars, with the 
rest going into the general GCC fund for wild SC parties and other 
administrative purposes.

We could consider it a bounty system, which has proven popular in other 
segemnts of the FOSS community.

Let's add money to voting; it's a long-time tradition!

-- 
Scott Robert Ladd
Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)
Software Invention for High-Performance Computing



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