Re: Fwd: [reiserfs-list] Viability of Open Source Business Models
In reality most of this is probably rubbish... and wouldn't apply to us
anyway (we're not providing a service, merely collecting donations... most
of the bitching is about returns etc.)
http://www.google.com/search?q=paypal+sucks
Anyway this really is stretching the boundaries of what's appropriate for
this list (I just can't think of a more appropriate forum for it).
- samj
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From: "Nick Busigin" <nick@xwing.org>
To: "Debian Consultants" <debian-consultants@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: [reiserfs-list] Viability of Open Source Business Models
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> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Sam Johnston wrote:
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> > http://www.everythinglinux.com.au sells 'debian donation' items at $1.00
a
> > piece. Each one sold results in AUD1 being donated to debian. This is a
> > great idea, although I don't know how well it would scale in terms of
sites
> > offering this 'service' and projects supported. In the mean time debian
may
> > want to say set up and advertise a paypal account or equivalent and/or
> > publish bank account details for wire transfer. Actually I just read a
bunch
> > of reasons why not to use paypal so scratch that. Also a wish list of
> > hardware, etc. would probably be useful.
>
> Hello Sam,
>
> I would have thought that a paypal account would make it easy for people
> to contribute to the Debian project, or other projects that to raise
> funds to pay developers. What did you read about paypal that had you
> decide against it?
>
> Nick
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