-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:50:23 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > For grants one important consideration, particularly when moving > from a user-funded project, is: do you have particular guidelines > that you would like to follow for funding? Are you OK if a company > funded you, or perhaps only certain companies? Would any > government funding be OK or would you like to avoid government > funding, or specific governments such as the US? >
I think the only limitation should be that we do not accept funds from someone who does publicly known criminal or pseudo-criminal activities, because that will attract lawsuits. Anyone else, including governments, all sorts of companies, etc. should be okay. Reasons for that: - - While we don't run out of money frequently, our funding is still very little, so we aren't even in the position to say "no we don't want your money". We NEED more so we can finally hire more full time developers! - - If someone wanted to hide security issues in Freenet, it would be a lot easier to just pay someone to pretend being a volunteer and commit bugged code. The payment then would be going by 100% into the attack. Donating to FPI would allow us to spend the money on other stuff, and therefore is a less useful attack. - - Code is a rather objective kind of thing, and therefore it would be rather difficult to bias code towards the interest of someone without making it pretty obvious. - - We still can insist on the privilege to decide what to do with the money. - - Government funding can be HUGE amounts compared to what we need. I've recently talked to someone about this who is into politics. He said that the "around $100k" region which is much for is is something which the German government could do without a lot of hassle. Governments have HUGE budget after all because they are so inefficient with their money spending :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJTmJYBAAoJEMtmZ+8tjWt5y2QP/2edhMMe+PMcyIhvOgZ2N/s8 k0vUv9QFGQYvs9Ds4ztRjnPbhOK1eQhAESYLL1s7yN9sfYBU8MqooZ0dkpTBHetC fyC2A8QaGgnlaCVR3y6Ae2noU3GaQWareVIpnWsXPQ6hY0k8QQM29bXEgI47w0OW ATCGp3aUQ4ckqEZ5eHswb0RYhp9jTz5097bL+sw32DPdWy+RjeVjPIqXA+DhbXgU 6KXGAdqHEUdtThEgQ5HNxfHyHJ3i0At8ZRTgVXBKbY1k7mk00nTOut/KJqO2kmg4 /ZgyU8U5HsAdjasKwFm8TjkNgUfDtnFb8BnGr28X7zs29YTkiDYib58rBgBoHTC+ FrtCDHz2Ys2H+iKfwzUKvki+jRrbdc7cxufhFg2dmNbybtivEoT2Ok65Nm/EjS0Y 9w8EbzC+QYTlLe2iuc7950jFjGy8en8xn5hp2hG8j9YqTpXXappPRxR9lWgXyx9A ENSIIm7jPeEh/jQR+zcw4uinoU7YfVzJBkgD03GgcDrMD/QjSmSSm1xlZBFFOoAG FpWGoWQ1yJZeaefgPoOpnDDOELclaoyYhex6UiriYh4Iy86/WFab4LCxRuyeKHea Lqr+qlSKaSfmg4H/bsXfAwIIyeVg02cQRpFz0l7JKdofIpkNpuASJ6DfvdOYI32M 0UUgn2mSCe/ZmULcAmy3 =H72j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
