Hi David, 2012/1/30 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> writes: > >> Hi David, >> >> 2012/1/30 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: >> [...] >>> We have established that it does not make sense to divert work setting >>> up generic channels when there is, at the current point of time, a >>> single taker and not even enough to go around to support him. >> >> How to do it different? Should every person, interested in supporting >> you, contact you offlist and ask for your bank account? > > Well yes, that would be the procedure for larger and/or regular > payments. Smaller amounts can go through PayPal for now.
So please expect a private mail from me. > >> [...] > > Let me reinsert a relevant part of the [...] here for the sake of our > readers: > >>>> But I'm disappointed about your statements about experienced users. >>>> You're right, I'm quite sure I could have solved Helge's problem. >>>> But I decided to answer to Brent because he was first. The rest of the >>>> day I visited a good friend being in her very last period of lifetime >>>> at the hospital. >>>> >>>> So - very british - I'm not amuzed. > >>> And I don't think that any number of postings along the line "Dude, how >>> come you expect something from me? I, as opposed to you freaks, have a >>> life." will really turn the balance to the better. > > Wouldn't you say that this is what your passage boils down to? No, because of "as opposed to you freaks". I never feeled like this and I never said, wrote or expressed it in any way. > Mind > you, there is nothing wrong with you having a life. But there would be > nothing wrong with me having a life, either. And eating, heating and > housing is useful for that. Of course! > And part of your life, apparently, is > filled with music. And keeping LilyPond in good shape is useful for > that. No doubt! > >> In an other mail of this thread you wrote: >> >> "Knowledge organizes in pyramids. And one can't build those without the >> intermediate layers." >> >> Will it turn the things better if you alienate all people not >> satisfying your expectations? > > I am not enough of a diplomat to win a single person-to-person battle in > the fight to get people to put their money rather than their foot where > their mouth is. And even if I were, I would not be getting the > equivalent of the time and stomach aches and sleepless nights I spend on > them. Well, your lack of diplomacy is well known. :) And in most cases I've no problem with it. But you tend to generalize with your remarks about users or sub-groups of them. This is nearly never helpful or even correct. > > I can be pretty sure that everyone I start arguing with is lost to my > cause. But I learn to lose in more embarrassing ways. I don't have the > resources to win a single battle in my fight for funding LilyPond > development. But that is less important than winning the war, and that > is won in the hearts of the bystanders. I need more of them than I can > address individually. How many battles did Gandhi win? > > I've been a gentleman about funding while being maintainer of AUCTeX > (and, at some time, its prime developer). That did not even by far get > me back the travelling fees for conferences where I taught people how to > make use of the stuff I gave them. You don't beat a sense of economic > decency into enough people by being discrete and humble. I'm afraid you're right. > There is > nothing new with that: I again refer to Wilde > > <URL:http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DevFri.shtml> BTW, german translation: http://www.besuche-oscar-wilde.de/werke/deutsch/maerchen/opferwillige_freund.htm > > It is a bit of a painful spectacle for those that actually do the right > thing without prodding. I wish they were not outnumbered as severely, > but then I have to work with what I got. > > -- > David Kastrup Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user