On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:45:09PM -0400, mmlacak wrote:
Neil, thanks for your answers. Pardon my ignorance, but
did you give them as an official SPI member?
I didn't give them as an official response from the board of SPI, but it
can be considered as officially the personal views of a board
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
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 no. This
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 no. This isn't SPI's
mmlacak wrote:
It's also being discussed at the moment if/how money affects developers.
Well, lets make possible for money to come in, in the first place.
In my opinion, money destroys. I believe it's already happening in
Debian. However, many people don't seem to care or understand.
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? Is able
Given that they depend on
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 in England, variously called things like
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006, Martin Schulze wrote:
In my opinion, money destroys. I believe it's already happening in
Debian. However, many people don't seem to care or understand.
ENOARGUMENTS.
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Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 09:20, Martin Schulze a écrit :
mmlacak wrote:
It's also being discussed at the moment if/how money affects developers.
Well, lets make possible for money to come in, in the first place.
In my opinion, money destroys. I believe it's already happening in
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote:
Could you please do me and probably many others a favour and move
this to private discussion. I do not like oversimplification and
overgeneralisation like
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Martin Schulze wrote
In my opinion, money destroys.
nor do I like thinks
Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 14:59, Andreas Tille a écrit :
as an argument. I do not want to say that paying medicine is bad,
but the sentence above has not much more sense than the sentence
above if you try to dive into the details. So if both makes no
sense at all it is not even off topic
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 in
Jérôme Marant wrote:
It's also being discussed at the moment if/how money affects developers.
Well, lets make possible for money to come in, in the first place.
In my opinion, money destroys. I believe it's already happening in
Debian. However, many people don't seem to care or
Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 22:24, Martin Schulze a écrit :
A. I said I would stop participating to the thread bu I could
not resist.
Seeing Bill Gates giving away billion dollars for paying medicines
in Third World countries makes me believe that money does the
reverse every often,
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 to
mmlacak dijo [Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 06:27:12PM -0400]:
FWIW: I don't think SPI should become an international bank. Nor do
I believe that SPI has the resources to do so.
That wasn't my original proposal either. I pretty much clumsy titled it
international money transfer service, while, in
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 to door ( post-office/bank to
On 10/9/06, mmlacak [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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
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