Re: You can support software freedom in 2008!

[David Fedoruk]

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> I haven't seen it on -devel; has it been removed somehow?
>
> > I don't think so. Indeed, I consider sending campaigns to mailing
> > lists without the mailinglist address at least in the to: or cc:
> > headers as offensive spam.
>
> Hmm... OTOH, LilyPond *is* a GNU software. They have helped us in some
> ways (ok, maybe they could have been even more helpful sometimes, but
> we're still using their savannah resources, and so on), and by being
> members of the LilyPond community, we are some kind of an extension of
> the (very large) GNU community.
>

You are right about our being members of this community, however, It
would have been common courtesy to ask for permission before posting
.... or perhaps they did. Maybe we should ask someone before jumping
to conclusions.

I have noticed that various GNU software communities have very
different standards concerning this kind of funding requests. Neo
Office, for instance, brings you back to the website on first launch
after installing the program or a patch to ask for cash donations.
Other projects simply would not tolerate such behaviour. This is
likely the case with Lilypond, since many members already have
supported the Lilypond Developers with paid for feature requests.

However, the milk has been spilled and as in our case, we cannot make
time move backward (yet).

Cheers,
David

-- 
David Fedoruk
B.Mus. UBC,1986
Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003


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