The objective is to actually bring this system online.

"cypherpunks write code." good.

Background:

There is a lot of software floating around. It basically falls into 5 catagories: Commercial, Shareware, Freeware, Gnu (and other "Copyleft" schemes) and Public Domain. <Need to fill this in, but at this point we all know what the 5 types are>

It is the "Copylefted" software that interests me at this point. There is quite a bit of high quality "Gnu" software, and at least one operating system based on the GNU mentality (linux) however there is a dearth of _enduser_ tools such as mail and news readers for the more popular end user operating systems, word processors and graphics editing software, easy to use Graphic Design Software (TeX is NOT easy to use) and easy to use Cryptographic software.

many would pay good money for Linux native versions of programs like Wordperfect, Corelpaint & draw, Pagemaker , etc.

4) Desired "quality" level: Proof of Concept, Alpha, Beta, Release etc.

Needs flesh. What defines "alpha" or "beta" for purposes of bounty or is that up to the person initiating the bounty?

6) Where the initiators money is to go if the bounty is not claimed: I will provide a short (8 or 10) list of charities that the money will go to if the bounty is not met. This is to keep the initiator honest, as well as the server. Each contributor will also get this choice.

Do you have the charities in mind? They should be listed in the abstract, I think. Who will be publicize the initial bounty offer -- the server or bounty initiator? Information about a specific software project will need to be disseminated beyond bounty.org. More details on conflict resolution are needed in a final draft. The process and priorites the server administator will use to make his judgements should be abastractly discussed and possibly 1 or 2 specific hypotheticals detailed. me -------------------------------------------------------------- Omegaman <mailto:omega@bigeasy.com> PGP Key fingerprint = 6D 31 C3 00 77 8C D1 C2 59 0A 01 E3 AF 81 94 63 Send a message with the text "get key" in the "Subject:" field to get a copy of my public key. --------------------------------------------------------------