Re: Developing Software as Charity?

Let me know what you find out.

Right now I'm hiring some guys in India to do work for me that I'm open
sourcing[1].

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).

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.

AJ ONeal

[1] https://github.com/coolaj86/mtags - Media Tags output as JSON for
consumption by JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and all other sane languages that
support JSON natively.

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Thomas Koch <thomas(at)koch(dot)ro> wrote:

> Jimmy Kaplowitz:
> > Hi AJ,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:16:20AM -0700, AJ ONeal wrote:
> > > I was thinking more along the lines of something like this:
> > >
> > > I suggest that a free software organization of some sort produce some
> > > sort of software.
> > > I donate the money necessary to fund the development of said software.
> > >
> > > I benefit from the donation, but so does everyone else.
> > >
> > > Perhaps there is no such organization currently in place.
> Hi,
>
> while you're discussing this, may you also consider the opposite case? I'd
> like to work full time developing free software. People who pay me for
> this,
> should be able to deduct my payment from taxes.
>
> There'd need to be a charity which employs me. Maybe the charity would need
> to
> restrict it's services only to other charities for this model to work.
>
> I'll be funemployed from march next year and plan to discuss this question
> with a local tax officer. I live in Switzerland a few meters away from the
> German border.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
>