Please spread this idea to all the FOSS (free open source software) developers you know.
There should be a free app for Ubuntu which uses the machine's actual usage statistics to calculate how much you use each application, and each component of the underlying operating system... Then, matcheshat usage time up with the Development Groups who maintain that code... And offers a list of those groups... with a suggested fair percentage for each...
In other words, if a user ( me for example ), wants to "tithe" -- financially contribute -- to the developers and development teams who have created this wonderful masterpiece we call Ubuntu Linux and all its various FOSS applications... I would love a list... showing all the software applications and components I use most, and their associated development teams, with a percentage next to each one ( based on my actual usage ).
I would then simply decide..... If I want to budget, say, $20 per month as a contribution, I could break up that donation to the list of various development teams / organizations... based on my real world usage pastern.
Obviously, Canonical/Ubuntu does not create all the applications that I use. They are not Linux. They are not GNOME. They are not Mozilla. etc., etc. etc. Many improvements actually come from various other different distributions altogether -- like Fedora or Red Hat, for example.
Perhaps the same data that's collected by that "System --> Administration --> Software Sources --> Statistics" tab thingie... could be used...?
I envision the resulting page with a pie chart and a list, side by side.... looking sorta like the output of "Disk Usage Analyzer" (except, of course, listing components and applications by amount of usage, and listing the Development Groups responsible for maintaining each one).
The resulting list could give me a list of the components and applications I use most, broken down by percentages each, list the associated development team responsible for the maintenance of that code, and even a link to each team's donation web page.
I'd rather give money to these groups than to buying anti-virus updates... Wouldn't you!?
Thoughts on this idea...?
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Originally Posted by Zill
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