Having KDE handle the donations will solve two potential issues: 1) Having to create a non-profit organization 2) Having one person be in control of the finances
It seems like that would be the quickest and safest way to move forward. - Jeff On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>wrote: > On Saturday 08 October 2011 Michael Grosser wrote: > > I really would have liked to have a reasonable discussion, but now it's > > getting ridiculous. > > Writing something like this doesn't even provide any basis of discussion: > > "I hope Flattr doesn't just send money to people reaching out to them, > > claiming that they are the rightful owner of the money." > > I don't want to clarify this. > > Come on, this was meant tongue-in-cheek. > > But seriously, legitimating access to money, also in case of problems, is > an > issue, which an organization solves compared to doing it privately. > > > The only thing I want to clarify is that Flattr is a trustworthy company, > > much more trustworthy than Paypal. > > I have not much trust in Paypal either. Somehow money has to be > transferred, > though, and Paypal works, just as many other options do. Flattr is using > Paypal as well, so there is no point in discussing who is more trustworthy. > It's on different levels. > > > I think the best for ownCloud is to end this discussion now. > > I wanted to discuss a valid point and still think it is one, but I don't > > want to get down to this ridiculous basis. > > It's up to you and the rest of the ownCloud community to make up your mind > about how you want to handle donations. I'm just offering some thoughts and > experience from my side. Feel free to use or ignore it. KDE does provide an > immediate way to move forward with this. I like ownCloud a lot, and I think > it > would be beneficial for ownCloud to make use of this opportunity. > > -- > Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud >
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