Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

[Darian Lanx]

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James Gibbs wrote:

On Feb 17, 2004, at 8:31 AM, Darian Lanx wrote:

Dear Community.

Is a membership something the Fink community would consider accepting?


Absolutely not. I think this is a ridiculous idea. The beauty of fink is 
that it is free. 
Hello Mister Gibbs.
I think you misunderstood me. Fink will always be free. The question is 
simply if Fink is something you deem worthy enough to receive a yearly 
donation of you of  xxx dollar at a regular interval. Since there has 
been much discussion that idea is fading away for various reasons, but 
that is indeed the initial idea behind the question.

Charging money would turn fink into just another 
software company. Users of fink would be cut in half at least, probably 
much less than that.
As I said, this is a voluntary effort, wether you give something or not 
is soley up to you, everybody will still download Fink for free and get 
their support for free.

Being a nonprofit, like Debian, so that fink can accept donations is one 
thing, but requiring payment for membership, if that is what you are 
suggesting, is out of the question in my opinion.

It is not what I am suggesting, see above :)

This is merely a step to improve our
service toward the community. Fink is a big project and the bigger it
gets, the more infrastructure it needs.


I'm not a megalomaniac. I don't care to see fink grow into a megalocom. 
I happen to like the small-shop nature, community-awareness and spirit 
of volunteerism of fink.
Sometimes pure volunteerism without a bit of guiding organisational work 
really doesn't do all you want it to do. Unfortunately organisation 
often costs money and that is what such an infrastructure would be very 
nice for. THere are surely many pros and cons our main wish is to 
finally give Fink a legal umbrellla. The rest is just bonus.

PS: David Höhn aka Darian Lanx aka dmalloc _always_ refers to me!


Why do you have two names?

Darian Lanx is a very old Handle from BBS times and I am loathe giving 
it up :)

- -d

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