From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:21:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o8iv3ac3.fsf@gnus.org> <877dpjp30g.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87zh2fnmwq.fsf@gnus.org> <87o8ivumn5.fsf@telefonica.net> <87v9d3nkxk.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35725"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: abrochard@gmx.com, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 22 06:22:49 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kra8H-0009B6-NU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 06:22:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49032 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kra8G-0002SB-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:22:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kra7a-0001dt-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52548) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kra7Y-00046O-EU; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kra7K-0005VY-7F; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:21:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Christopher Dimech on Mon, 21 Dec 2020 07:57:05 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261464 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > We could also motivate by offering small payments for solutions to > unresolved problems. Yes, we could do that. It could be a useful practice. And we would need to make a plan: a list of projects (not very many of them, I'd think) that are of a reasonable size and amounts to offer. Do you think people could be motivated by amounts under hundreds of dollars? I tend to doubt it. > Most people I know don't know what to do or what problems are out there. Is this because we have not posted it in a clear enough way or because we have not made people aware of what we do post? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)