I'm no core developer, but I do have an option on micropayments. I think they'd be a great way to raise revenue, and they might help move Freenet development forward a little bit. Also, I'd be willing to pay something (aka, donate) and I'm thinking about doing so. However, not everybody has a lot of money to spare, and I think that the contributions people are giving that don't include money are already doing a great service for Freenet.
In English, I don't think that micropayments are a good idea if they are mandatory. However, I think that Christopher's idea of having two divisions of Freenet, one for the general public, and one for contributors, might work, and is at least worth a shot to see if it works. I'm willing to give it a try. Maybe. However, I think that it's important to keep Freenet free. As in gratis. At least to use. I think there should still be a public Freenet, and I think that the people who run micropayment nodes should still contribute some of their node to the general public Freenet. It shouldn't all go to some sort of pay network. I think that money would make more people want to run a node, but I think it would make less people want to use the network. And I'm not sure that micropayments are necessary for the network to actually work. Again, I'm willing to give it a thought, and maybe a try. Wesley. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim > Sent: Thursday, 04 July, 2002 11:09 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [freenet-support] Mailing lists and Micropayments > > > Is there a problem with the mailing lists? I can't get to the > info page of > the other lists to join them and I can't get to the archives either. > > I was going to ask if there was a general consensus among the developers > regarding adding micropayments to freenet. Good idea? Bad Idea? > Since I > can't ask there, I'll toss it out here and move it to tech later. > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
