@wawrzon:
not even such well donated ones as firefox i think. besides this is maybe a sad example as there obviously wasnt deliverd anything worth mention not even enough feedback on development status for about a year. not to speak of the time before.
I don't think you quite got what is happening with Firefox. First, the developers took the project on without a bounty in place. They took it on under their own terms, purely because they wanted to do it. Then the bounty arrived, created and suggested by people other than the developers, purely as a show of appreciation for their work. It wasn't meant as a motivational spur for the developers, and the developers are under no obligation to pass on any information, or even finish the project. That said, they have been pretty quiet about it but have said they're still working on it, delayed by the move to the Firefox 4 code base.
Anyway, I think that bounties are quite a good system, giving great rewards to the community such as this Kickstart one. If you don't like the bounties, then don't contribute, but feel free to suggest a
realistic alternative solution.
