Re: Let's make Emacs mainstream (through org-mode)

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 at 6:49 AM
> From: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> To: "Vasilij Schneidermann" <mail@vasilij.de>
> Cc: jamtlu@gmail.com, kfogel@red-bean.com, dimech@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Let's make Emacs mainstream (through org-mode)
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>   > There are several fund raising platforms (Patreon being the most
>   > well-known, but not the only one)
>
> For moral reasons, we cannot refer people to donation sites that
> require donors to run nonfree software.  Patreon does that, and as far
> as I know they all do.  I would be very glad to find out about one
> that doesn't.
>
>   > Another thing to consider is funding in general. There is this
>   > widespread misbelief that one can support the development of Emacs and
>   > Emacs packages by donating to the FSF. Giving people an official option
>   > to that effect might be worth looking into.
>
> The FSF does this sort of thing, and could do it for Emacs.
> The question is, have we got useful ways to spend sums in the
> hundreds or thousands -- not enough to pay for large jobs of
> programming.

My general experience in industry tells me that it is the maintainers
that have to be proactive for funds, and then decide how to use them.
A very good example about this has been Dr Luis Falcon, Founder and
President of Gnu Solidario.


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