Your message dated: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:22:07 +0100
>Hi,
>
>Peter Seebach wrote
>>What if you could place bounties on given pieces of code?  For instance,
>>I could place a $100 bounty on the LS-120 driver.  (In fact, if one
>>gets added, I will happily pay the contributor $100...)  But, what if,
>>once I announce that, other people could contribute to the bounty, in
>>whatever quantities they feel comfortable with.
>>
>I'd change that so that:
>a) the people don't just loosely pledge, but actually send in something
>legally binding. It's so easy to have forgotten the pledge (or to not be
>able to pay it right now, maybe next quarter) when the code is actually
>there.
>b) there not just be a "first to submit gets the money".

I would suggest to add a NetBSD-foundation-overhead tax of some sort, say
10% of the contributed money. Such money could then be used by the NetBSD
team to fund, well... CD-releases, `marketing', diskspace, whatever...

Feico.