As Matt pointed out to me off-list, a lot of FOSS is provided for a
profit.
I live about five miles from Red Hat, and teach Linux for a living.
Perhaps I should have been more specific that "I have a
philosophical/ethical problem with MY charging for simply providing a
FOSS service."
While I would love to monetize the time I put into adminning the
lists, it would be a pain to fairly calculate (or keep track of) it,
so I consider it a mitzvah.
YMMV,
-Chip-
On 5/15/2017 5:17 PM, Richard Shetron wrote:
What I've always done is offered special pricing, usually at least 50%
off for charitable 503(c) and other 'public service' type groups. It
more depended on the resources they required and the amount of hand
holding.
On 5/15/17 3:13 PM, Chip Davis wrote:
All of the Mailman lists I host/admin are provided free of charge,
as a value-add to the members of various non-profit groups. Insofar
as the actual costs of providing a discussion or announcement list
are hard to tease out, the best I could do would be to apportion the
total costs of the servers they are on across all the other services
I get. The income would be nice to offset my expenses but
administering it would be nearly as great as that of adminning the
lists themselves. So I treat it as my contribution to good causes.
Also, I have a philosophical/ethical problem with charging for
simply providing a FOSS service. I know it's allowed but still...
[snip]
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