Speaking of a PayPal account... I have one. I even set it up to accept credit card payments a few weeks ago, but I haven't yet put a link to it from my personal page. I think I now have some motivation to do so :)
I'll will post once to the list to let people know that the link exists, and I'll make sure that there are links to my home page from the Cygwin/XFree86 page, but I won't put a PayPal link directly on the Cygwin/XFree86 page because I believe that would violate the spirit of the project. <--- That was just so that everyone knows that I will be ethical about this :) Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rasjid Wilcox > Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 10:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rahul Amaram-RollNo.2000086 > Subject: Re: displaying windows outside the main window > > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 9:48 pm, Rahul Amaram-RollNo.2000086 wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to display the clients' windows like xterm, rxvt, > > ymeesenger, etc. outside the main single window??? Any help would be > > appreciated. > > Rahul. > > See http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/todo.html. It is at the top > of the list, > but Cygwin-XFree is developed in peoples spare time. > > Harold did offer to develop needed features in return for some > renumeration. > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00090.html > > I didn't respond to Harold's post at the time, as unfortunately I > don't hold > the purse strings where I work, but philosophically I am strongly > in favour > of people paying money to get features they want developed in Open-Source > software. I have helped my workplace become a paying customer to two > open-source products, Mitel's SME server and Astaro's Security Linux. > > If Harold had a pay pal account, I would happily contribute US$10, > particularly if a number of other people did so too. Perhaps > setting up some > kind of pledge system. Something along the lines of: > > Task 1: Rootless mode > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------- > |Name | Amount Pledged | Contact > | Rec'd | > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------- > | Joe Blogs | $20 | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yes | > | Mary Smith | $15 | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | > | etc.... > > Task 2: ...... > > Once the task is complete, someone follows up each pledge. I > would suggest > that that someone not be the developer(s). An automated system would be > better. Anyone know of an existing system that could be coerced > to do the > task? > > Would RedHat be happy to host such a pledging system on their servers? I > would be happy to host it on my sever. Note that it is only on an ADSL > connection with a 64kbs uplink speed. However, it is up 24/7 and > does have a > fixed IP. > > The contact email address would need to be obscured from the spammers, or > perhaps kept off public pages altogether. > > What do people think? Could it work? Is it already being done somewhere? > > I have just found some pages by Christopher Browne, called the > "Free Software > (Gift) Exchange Registry" (http://cbbrowne.com/info/fssp.html), > but he just > talks about a similar idea. There is no reference to someone actually > putting his idea into practice. Christopher does raise the issue > of gifts > and tax, and his article is generally a good read. > > Rasjid. >