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

[Robb Bean]

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted. Datum: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:11:24 +0100 Von: Robb Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Darian Lanx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Referenzen: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry, forgot to CC it to you all! Darian Lanx schrieb: > 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. I see. I thought, too, that there would be plans taking Fink into a membership organization where you have to be member to get Fink and the packages. That made me a bit confusing. But I think the way of donation very good. There are some projects like wikipedia or the german SelfHTML that get money for their server by the community using the infrastructure. AFAIK got SelfHTML more they needed, but maybe the reason is, they asked a short time before x-mas ;-) After reading the first mail about this I got the idea, what about distributing Fink like Debian? I want to say, that there is the Fink on the net, as we know it from today and there are certain stores selling Apple products, that may install Fink on the computers they sell and for this they give money to Fink. Another aspect would be that these stores also sell Fink CDs for users with a slow internet connection that want to test Fink, like the Debian CDs. The stores may want to have a fee for burning the CD, but the most money of a CDs price should be donated to Fink. Yours, -- Robert Bienert <robertbienert[AT]gmx[dot]net> http://www.rbprogs.de.vu/ - some free and open source stuff http://www.robertbienert.de/ - my personal homepage -- Robert Bienert <robertbienert[AT]gmx[dot]net> http://www.rbprogs.de.vu/ - some free and open source stuff http://www.robertbienert.de/ - my personal homepage ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users