From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932211AbWAJNYp (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:24:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932214AbWAJNYp (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:24:45 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:45445 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932211AbWAJNYo (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:24:44 -0500 Message-ID: <43C3B6A8.5030905@aitel.hist.no> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:29:12 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yaroslav Rastrigin CC: CaT , Alistair John Strachan , andersen@codepoet.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time References: <174467f50601082354y7ca871c7k@mail.gmail.com> <200601091403.46304.yarick@it-territory.ru> <20060109124545.GA2035@zip.com.au> <200601091634.52107.yarick@it-territory.ru> In-Reply-To: <200601091634.52107.yarick@it-territory.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote: >Ahhh. Sweet dream - to be able to offer money to fix extremely annoying bugs or to add missing features. >Unfortunately, bounties doesn't work :-/ > > Depends on how much money you have to offer. If you have the resources to hire a programmer full-time until your favourite problem is solved - no problem I think. If funding development alone is a bit much, consider starting with one particular problem and try collecting money from other interested people. Money can surely get the work done - but then you usually have to pay enough that the programmer can make a living while working for you. The cheap alternative is enthusiasts who will write a hardware driver if they get the hw for free. Helge Hafting