Re: Personal gift - INR 10,0000 - to new contributors

[David Kastrup]

Michal Nazarewicz <address@hidden> writes:

> FYI, somehow related initiative which Emacs could be part of once git
> conversion is done: http://tip4commit.com/

That's sort of a small-scale Ponzi scheme kept running by keeping money
in the system.  They pay out 1% of project pool funds per commit, retain
small payouts and return them into the "project pool" after a while.

So except for large payments and/or few main contributors of fast-moving
projects with lots of commits, a large part of the contributions stays
stuck in the system.  In particular, it is no incentive for
new/occasional contributors as they never receive a payout unless the
system is inundanted with donations.

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David Kastrup