From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Joshua Branson <jbranson@setyourwaypoint.com>
Cc: 22670@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22670: Upgrading Emacs Packages and Pay What You Want
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:44:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aVNC6-0006zc-G6@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vb5qkin5.fsf@setyourwaypoint.com> (message from Joshua Branson on Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:54:22 -0500)
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> Essentially, is it possible
> to create a pay-what-you-want.el package, that will store your payment
> credentials, and allow users to seamlessly give tiny donations to emacs
> developers on certain updates: ie: a new version of a package came out
> (Gnus 10.0), or emacs now implements threads, or emacs can now
> understand mental commands? I envision this package working as follows
> (but by no means am I dictating how it has to work): When these
> important milestones are reached, emacs would prompt you before
> downloading the package to pay what you want for these updates.
It's a fine idea. The hard part is how to do the payments.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-14 22:54 bug#22670: Upgrading Emacs Packages and Pay What You Want Joshua Branson
2016-02-15 17:44 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-02-15 23:28 ` Joshua Branson
2016-02-16 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-15 12:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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