Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $
Brian writes:
> I find it annoying that I can download an ISO and turn around and sell it
> and not have to give 1 monetary unit to Debian.
I don't, and I wrote some of the stuff in that ISO.
> I don't think it's reasonable.
I do. It costs me nothing when you download that ISO, and no one was about
to pay me for copies of that stuff I wrote, so how does your selling CD's
harm me?
> Even if some sort of scheme could be worked out on the monetary side, the
> task of deciding who gets what to do what is very non-trivial.
There is a system for doing that. It is called a for-profit corporation.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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