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Re: PaySwarm-based Debian donations



On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> site requesting user's charity
>
> You mean user's involvement. You don't want users to be invited to
> participate in Debian. Debian isn't elitist and it shouldn't care that
> the tool being deployed is money rather than time.
>
> Your argument invites exclusion and you've not made a good case for why
> out-of-band unknown-to-everyone transactions are better. Only that it is
> technically possible to do so *kind of*. And that existing Debian
> members have said they find in-band transactions distasteful.
>
> Although we don't even invite users to participate with their time. So
> we're not even good at advertising Debian to Debian users anyway, even
> if it would be interesting and good for them to do so.
>
> Martin,

Martin,

What do you think of this recent University Study?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341944/What-makes-good-people-bad-things-The-mere-smell-money.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Can we please close this thread now?

Thanks,
Brian


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