Make it easy to voluntarily pay for free OpenMoko software?

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Fri Jan 26 11:42:36 CET 2007


On 26/01/07, Mikko Rauhala <mjrauhal at cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> to, 2007-01-25 kello 22:56 +0000, Dave Crossland kirjoitti:
> > Many free software projects accept donations, and if you are willing
> > to pay the developers after enjoying their software, I feel it is
> > important to donate a little.
>
> Indeed. Which brings to mind that should/could OpenMoko provide some
> framework to make it easier to pass a few bucks to a developer of a
> nifty free app

I am totally all in favour of this - but I am not (yet...) a
developer, merely a user, and can't help things myself :-/

> if successful, it would perhaps serve to make the distiction between
> beer and speech free more apparent. ('course, it could be used by
> non-free software developers as well, but whatever.)

Yes, I think so. You might find
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html interesting on this subject
:-)

-- 
Regards,
Dave




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