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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Facilitating payments/contributions to developers
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Nicolás Reynolds |
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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Facilitating payments/contributions to developers |
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Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:40:38 -0300 |
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El 15/01/13 09:42, John Sullivan dijo:
> It would be nice if free distributions could support giving donations to
> the authors of their packages.
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> The FSF could help with the backend of this (handling the money, etc),
> but code is needed for the frontend, which somehow tastefully and
> usefully presents users with this option, perhaps as part of the
> installation process.
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> Ubuntu is doing something like this, where users can choose areas they
> want to see improved and give a corresponding contribution.
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> Any thoughts about how this could be done, or know about any other
> places where it's already being done?
This is related to Jaromil's thread about adbard and a general question about
sustaining libre distributions, no?
BTW at Parabola we've been offered to split ad revenue with duckduckgo.com but
only for the nonfree javascript version :P
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