Re: Proposal: SPI as international money transfer service

2006-10-15 Thread mmlacak
Neil McGovern wrote: I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'general open source community'. 'General open source community' to me consists of all developers which have at least one open source project published. Most developers who need funding seem to be attached to a project. Would

Re: Proposal: SPI as international money transfer service

2006-10-14 Thread mmlacak
Neil wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:07:10PM -0400, mmlacak wrote: So, my question is: can we make SPI ( http://www.spi-inc.org/, http://www.debian.org/donations ) into monetary service which accepts from and is able to transfer money to any country in the world? In short

Re: Proposal: SPI as international money transfer service

2006-10-11 Thread mmlacak
MJ Ray wrote: mmlacak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What we do need, beside a good will, is a convenient, reliable, affordable international money transfer service. [...] They all aren't up to a general community benefit in long term. Mutual banking services exist

Re: Proposal: SPI as international money transfer service

2006-10-10 Thread mmlacak
Martin Schulze wrote: mmlacak wrote: So, my question is: can we make SPI ( http://www.spi-inc.org/, http://www.debian.org/donations ) into monetary service which accepts from and is able to transfer money to any country in the world? Is able to deliver money basically from door

Proposal: SPI as international money transfer service

2006-10-08 Thread mmlacak
Let me cite Mr. Reiser ( http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8278035161.html ): The legal costs, and the low rewards from open-source programming, had also been upsetting Mr. Reiser. In a 2005 email conversation, he wrote, 'Free software is not a good way to make money. We as a society