Re: Another happy lilypond user

[SoundsFromSound]

I'd like to donate on a regular basis.  What's the easiest, most efficient
way to setup this via my PayPal? Send money direct to David's email, or is
there a centralized option?  Sorry if this is the wrong thread to ask this
question, I just figured that it wasn't /too /far off for a tangent.

Thanks,
Ben

PS.  Is there a link to show how much per month the LilyPond project "uses"
(costs, hosting, coding hours, etc)?  That would give me a better
understanding of the entire situation as it stands currently.




James Harkins-2 wrote
> David Kastrup 
> <dak <at>
>  gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> James Harkins 
> <jamshark70 <at>
>  gmail.com> writes:
>> > Last week, I got a message inviting me to pay my Finale tax. I was
>> > very happy to delete it, but not before a good larf.
>> 
>> Well, I am somewhat unhappy with that focus on the pricing of Finale as
>> my own work is being funded by LilyPond users who are typically paying
>> somewhat more to substantially more than the "Finale tax" would entail.
>> 
>> For them, the important difference obviously is not that Finale costs
>> money to use.  On the one hand, they get quite more in return for their
>> payment than the right to run a single copy.  On the other hand,
>> everybody else gets the same, without paying.
> 
> This is an excellent point... thanks for the reminder.
> 
> I've been using Lilypond for about two years now (though not heavily, as
> most 
> of my music is electronic with an improvisatory element). Finale asks for 
> US$100-120 every year. (This might actually be a bit high for me; I
> haven't 
> upgraded Finale since, oh, 2009.) If I transfer my Finale tax to David, 
> that's US$300 to cover the last 2 years of use plus the next year in
> advance. 
> For myself, I have to weigh that against the fact that most of my 
> compositions don't involve a printed score. This is one of the reasons why
> I 
> stopped paying the Finale people. Since I don't use notation software
> daily, 
> it didn't make sense to keep investing the same amount as someone whose 
> entire oeuvre depends on it. (My daily-use musical tool is SuperCollider,
> but 
> there, I contribute code fixes, documentation and occasionally features.)
> 
> (That's apart from the fact that they *still* can't fix their ridiculous 
> collision detection failures. In some ways, I think they should charge for 
> the Garritan instrument library, and then give you a discount for being 
> forced to suffer Finale's notation mistakes.)
> 
> But... when I need a printed score, I *really* need it, and I'm glad to be 
> using the best. I do feel I should pay something, appropriate for the
> amount 
> I actually use it. It's very easy to forget that.
> 
> I managed to mess up my PayPal account somehow (it was not clear what to
> do 
> if your bank is in the US but you live in China). I'll come back to that 
> after I've got it sorted.
> 
> hjh
> 
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