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bug#22670: Upgrading Emacs Packages and Pay What You Want
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#22670: Upgrading Emacs Packages and Pay What You Want |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:44:18 -0500 |
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> Essentially, is it possible
> to create a pay-what-you-want.el package, that will store your payment
> credentials, and allow users to seamlessly give tiny donations to emacs
> developers on certain updates: ie: a new version of a package came out
> (Gnus 10.0), or emacs now implements threads, or emacs can now
> understand mental commands? I envision this package working as follows
> (but by no means am I dictating how it has to work): When these
> important milestones are reached, emacs would prompt you before
> downloading the package to pay what you want for these updates.
It's a fine idea. The hard part is how to do the payments.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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