Topic: Idea: A fund for an alternative Bitcoin development team. - page 2. (Read 8080 times)

You are completely out of place, mumbling like a small child which got lost and doesn't know where it is.

Let me clearify some simple rules for you:

- Open Source projects are **NOT** companies, neither they behave as one
- Open Source projects are **NOT** ruled by shareholders.
- Open Source projects are **NOT** ruled by money.
- If you want something done well in Open Source world, do it yourself
    - If you can't do it yourself, find somebody who can and pay him
- If you don't like a project, just fork it or write it from the scratch (but you still have to convince people to use your version which will not be easy)

Gavin- you are doing just fine for me:

I am not the World's Best Security Expert.
I am not the World's Best Programmer.
I am not a cryptographer.
I am not an expert on finance or banking or monetary systems.
I am not an expert on leading open source projects.

If you want the best security DO NOT ask a cop
If you want the best program DO NOT rely on the best programmer
Hardly anyone is a cryptographer
If you want to replace the current defunct finance and baking system DO NOT ask an expert (where x is an unknown and a spurt is a drip under pressure)
If you want a leader DO NOT ask for volunteers or vote on it co-opt the most able all round guy and support him 100%

Gavin you got the job!   reg.

It must be a host-related issue (nearlyfreespeech.net). That's all I can say about that.

If you have the money, just start it. if you just ask for free opinion, it's no and this not a good idea.

hmm...how typical is this?

http://bitkoin.su

So, what about these things, Atlas?

For the most part, wumpus still maintains QT, and the rest of the devs focus on bitcoind, although there is necessarily more overlap than there was initially.

Bitcoin-qt was fine when John Smith wrote it, having it absorbed into the main bitcoin bundle just serves as a potential distraction from the important part, which is bitcoind.

I can understand that it was probably easier to pull it into bitcoin because it was so inextricably entwined into the internals that probably ought to be bitcoind's business only and not concern clients whatsoever, but still, bitcoind - the actual core protocol code - is what the core team should be working on and allowing the GUI GU GUI oh shiny wah wah where's my GUI I can't read nor write I gotta click click click crowd divert attention from the core stuff happens too darn often in too many things.

Maybe when Armory takes off qt can be deprecated until someone unravels it from bitcoind so it can run separately as a front end using an API to interface with the actual protocol.

-MarkM-

P.S: When I run stuff as another username in text mode, it cannot read my keyboard, scrape my screen, track my mouse movements and so on, as far as I am aware. Whereas if I let it have access to Xwindows (my GUI), it can do all those things, last I heard... Thus encouraging people to use a GUI for mission-critical financial applications seems a bad idea. (No wonder they get their wallets stolen? Their passwords are visible to any trojan they allow to access their GUI system? Does that apply to Windows GUI also?)

People have no problem waiting two hours to download a movie.

Don't know what to make of it, but Atlas's home page sure is cool as fuck.

A little patience guys, the Boss is on his way back from Andromeda, traffic jam

+1

I canceled all my appointments and sent my men home with paid to set and wait for this today. Please don't disappoint me.

Hey, its past March 11, 2012 now.

^ No it's just skepticism. Now please surprise us! I firmly believe that competition can only be good for Bitcoin.

Is there an inside joke I am missing here?

Will it be an announcement that it's closed due to a lack of interest?

March 11, 2012.

Expect big things. You heard it here first.

I'll do just that.