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Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
From: Maurizio Colucci <seguso.forever () tin ! it>
Date: 2005-03-13 16:10:56
Message-ID: 42346610.5030701 () tin ! it
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|| svaksha || wrote:
> Using money as the benchmark for getting a software feature
> implemented is a flawed outlook but hypothetically if that were true,
> we would not have a product like Windows existing in the market in the
> first place.
This makes no sense to me.
> Secondly a lay user can always hire local coders to make
> any changes if required,
No he can't. Alone, he wouldn't have enough money. That's why I proposed a
structure that allows users to *join* their money.
> what is the point of commercializing it to
> the organizational level ?
>
> The free (as in beer) software concept has been a boon for many
> undeveloped nations with respect to learning and sharing knowledge
> with the masses.
???
*Nobody* is threatening this concept. Software should be free. Donations
would be completely *voluntary*. Just like they are now.
> If this did not remain in the present form and were
> to assume a commercial identity
??? Commercial identity? Did you actually read what I wrote?
> it would deny ordinary people a basic
> right to have information many poor governments will be at the mercy
> of rich corporate entities. The GPL prevents such crass
> commercialisation and it must remain that way !
Exactly. Then your fears are *doubly* illogical.
Maurizio
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