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Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES
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Jason Stover |
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Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES |
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Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:57:51 +0000 |
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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:19:02AM +0000, Jason Stover wrote:
>
> Thanks for the offer. For some time, I have been asking Free Software
> Foundation to set up an account for PSPP to accept donations for
> coding. I'm starting to think they'll never act on this. The other
> alternative is for "us" (whoever that should be) to set up something
> like a PayPal account, independently of FSF, to accept
> donations. Though faster, this approach may suffer from an appearance
> of illegitimacy and lack of oversight.
>
> What do potential donors think of this idea? Set up something on our
> own? Or wait, possibly forever, to hear from FSF?
I spoke too soon: I just heard from FSF, and they plan to introduce a
program for funding coding of specific GNU projects. They expect to
have something ready in a month or so.
-Jason
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