Questions: 1) why should i contribute to your fund instead of directly contributing to the funds or companies that maintain the linux distribution that i use.
2) There is already a linux standard base www.linuxbase.org...why another one that nobody follows 3) how can your overhead be minimal or nothing ?...the best charitable organizations have 20% overhead... zero overhead implies contribute directly without going through third parties which you are.. 4) better the community ? with what.... better human beings ? 5) what's the criteria of who deserves to be paid by the money you collect ? Cheers, K On 1/10/06, Mark Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really, I should have thought more about the first e-mail (oops). > Thank you for all your comments! > > Here is what the goal is (as of now): > - To have some kind of useful standard among the many distributions. > - To compensate those who need or want compensation for their hard > work. (The laborer is worthy of his/her wages.) > - Community moderated, no controlling overhead like Microsoft. > - Whatever they release will be completely free software. No strings. > > "United" means we help each other develop and improve Linux > software--separately. So no united. That's optional for now. > > How can people be interested? > - It is just a fund paid by the community for the community > - Overhead will be minimal, if anything. > - People are already interested in Linux, and they would like to donate > to a worthy cause. (Yes, this does mean that we would have to be worthy) > > What's the point? > - Make Linux better > - Increase Linux users (Microsoft users might convert) > - Better the community > - Pay people who deserve it > > > Really, we could make Gentoo the official distribution of Saviour > Linux. Personally, I think it is the best. > > Mark Stewart > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
