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Bounties In Amigland... A Strange Concept... 20/3/2012, 06:41
Franko
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Bounties... never heard of them until I finally went on the net a couple of years ago... 
Till then the only Bounties I knew about were these kind...
Now maybe it's just me but I honestly don't see the point in them and actually see them as somewhat of a con myself...
I mean what is this money that people donate used for !!!
It cost nothing to sit down and write a program for the Amiga so just why is this money needed and what is it really used for !!!
It's not like making a decent quality film/ movie or documentary like VIVA AMIGA for example. That requires equipment, material costs etc... so something like that I don't mind giving money too...
But writing software for your Amiga requires nothing but your time (however much you choose to dedicate to it), so why do people always pop up in Amigaland asking for folk to donate to these "bounties" and some folk atually seem quite happy to give their money to them...
Seems pretty odd to me, like I say when it doesn't actually cost anything to sit down and write some code...
Maybe I'm just a wee bit sceptical about this subject but honestly I think this whole "Bounties" concept is pretty pointless and basically giving your hard earned cash to others for something they could have done simply for the fact they enjoyed coding...
Till then the only Bounties I knew about were these kind...
Now maybe it's just me but I honestly don't see the point in them and actually see them as somewhat of a con myself...
I mean what is this money that people donate used for !!!
It cost nothing to sit down and write a program for the Amiga so just why is this money needed and what is it really used for !!!
It's not like making a decent quality film/ movie or documentary like VIVA AMIGA for example. That requires equipment, material costs etc... so something like that I don't mind giving money too...
But writing software for your Amiga requires nothing but your time (however much you choose to dedicate to it), so why do people always pop up in Amigaland asking for folk to donate to these "bounties" and some folk atually seem quite happy to give their money to them...
Seems pretty odd to me, like I say when it doesn't actually cost anything to sit down and write some code...
Maybe I'm just a wee bit sceptical about this subject but honestly I think this whole "Bounties" concept is pretty pointless and basically giving your hard earned cash to others for something they could have done simply for the fact they enjoyed coding...
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