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Re: [ic] Frustrated with IC 4.8
Their is a "Tip Jar" that has been setup by Redhat
for Interchange. Maybe more people should be made aware of it and then we
could all donate what we feel would be appropriate. I would be willing to
pay a small amount per month ($2.00) for access to the list, I think the
archive should be left open to everyone though.
J. Frank Cortes
At 9/17/2001 02:16 PM, you wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001
mheins@redhat.com wrote:
[snip]
>
> If everyone who was on the mail list was spending money with Red
Hat, using
> our support services, instead of downloading the program for
free
> and then using the mail list, we would, I guarantee, devote more
resources
> to improving the program. We don't expect that, of course, but the
fact
> remains that There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
>
> The only way we will get more resources is for people to spend
money
> with us. There are some ways to do this. You can purchase the
E-commerce
> suite and get a year's worth of support with people to answer
your
> questions as they come up. Or, you can retain us for a few hours
of
> technical support so we can answer your questions and provide
guidance.
>
> The predecessor to Interchange, Minivend, was largely supported
by
> the clients who engaged me to do work for them based on
Minivend.
> Most of them have never inhabited the mail list, so you
wouldn't
> know them. But they had as much, no more, to do with the
longevity
> of Interchange than anyone. If I hadn't been able to eat, then
> I would have done something else.
>
> It can come in the form of small self-contained contributions
> to the documentation or utilities -- the work of various people
on
> payment systems is an example. Or it can come in the form of
> money. All help.
>
Dear Mike and all other contributing IC developers,
as someone who discovered in a long process of questioning myself, that
the only way, I could help, would be with money, I like to add
something
with regards to monetary donations.
There might be enough people among us, who really have no current
need
to develop a site for themselves or are not that experienced to do
such
work for others, but who know enough about the history of
Interchange
and understand, that, may be in the future, they might use IC as
paying
customer of Red Hat, but currently don't and can't. Nevertheless
those
among us still follow up on IC and read regularly this list and
save
the "goodies" for future use.
I often felt that the technical help given on this (as well as
other
technical support mailing lists of OSS applications) is the most
valuable
thing given away for free, aside from the open source code itself.
Therefore I really think, that this list should get a
"price",
which reflects the support IC users should give to say thanks for a
free
software package and to affirm, that we are willing to acknowledge
the
volunteer service on this list by the ones, who are IC
knowledgable.
I made once a general suggestion like that on a familiar and often
used
forum of the Open/Free Source community in this regard and got (at
least
to me) a devastating answer. Noone wanted to consider this option
of
supporting an OSS project. I wondered why the response was so
negative.
But, that shouldn't deter me from trying it here again.
I know that asking for some registration fees for this mailing
lists
might only make a relative small amount of money compared to hiring
you
folks for a project or buying the commercial package. But on the
other
hand there might just be enough "very small" businesses or
"poor
individuals", who would be willing to pay a registration fee to this
list,
to make a small difference.
I propose a monthly registration fee to this mailing list to
collect
money for development and documentation support. I like to know, who
would
support this idea and what you consider a price, which would reflect
the
value of help you are getting here.
Birgitt Funk
> Mike
>
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