Re: Bounty Server, Revisited.

>      The objective is to actually bring this system online. 

"cypherpunks write code."  good.

> Background:
> 
>      There is a lot of software floating around. It basically falls into
>      5 catagories: Commercial, Shareware, Freeware, Gnu (and other 
>      "Copyleft" schemes) and Public Domain. 
>      <Need to fill this in, but at this point we all know what the 5 types 
>      are> 
> 
>      It is the "Copylefted" software that interests me at this point. There
>      is quite a bit of high quality "Gnu" software, and at least one
>      operating system based on the GNU mentality (linux) however there 
>      is a dearth of _enduser_ tools such as mail and news readers for 
>      the more popular end user operating systems, word processors and 
>      graphics editing software, easy to use Graphic Design Software (TeX
>      is NOT easy to use) and easy to use Cryptographic software. 

many would pay good money for Linux native versions of programs like 
Wordperfect, Corelpaint & draw, Pagemaker , etc.

>     4) Desired "quality" level: Proof of Concept, Alpha, Beta, Release etc. 

Needs flesh.  What defines "alpha" or "beta" for purposes of bounty 
or is that up to the person initiating the bounty?
 
>     6) Where the initiators money is to go if the bounty is not claimed: 
>        I will provide a short (8 or 10) list of charities that the money 
>        will go to if the bounty is not met. This is to keep the initiator
>        honest, as well as the server. Each contributor will also get this 
>        choice. 

Do you have the charities in mind?  They should be listed in the 
abstract, I think.


Who will be publicize the initial bounty offer -- the server or 
bounty initiator?  Information about a specific software project will 
need to be disseminated beyond bounty.org.  


More details on conflict resolution are needed in a final draft.  The 
process and priorites the server administator will use to make his 
judgements should be abastractly discussed and possibly 1 or 2 
specific hypotheticals detailed.

me
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:48:47 +0000, "Omegaman" wrote:

   >      graphics editing software, easy to use Graphic Design Software (TeX
   >      is NOT easy to use) and easy to use Cryptographic software. 

TeX *may* not be easy to learn (the price of The TeXBook is well worth
it), but it's not hard to use.  It's not suited to graphic-laden
documents, though.

   many would pay good money for Linux native versions of programs like 
   Wordperfect, Corelpaint & draw, Pagemaker , etc.

WordPerfect, at least, is available (from Caldera).  And then there
are the ApplixWare and StarOffice suites.  I've been hearing rumours
about CorelDraw for quite a while, but nothing concrete yet AFAIK, and
Corel are supposed to be doing a Java-based office suite that will run
under Linux+JDK.

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