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: Let's make Emacs mainstream (through org-mode) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:49:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87lfdyaevd.fsf@red-bean.com> 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="22955"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, dimech@gmx.com, jamtlu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vasilij Schneidermann Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 18 06:58:04 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 1kq8mC-0005sr-7S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 06:58:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34522 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kq8mB-00019o-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:58:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kq8dd-0007eX-Ei for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kq8dd-0006Nr-4r; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kq8da-0006vd-Gs; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:49:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Vasilij Schneidermann on Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:49:12 +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:261158 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. ]]] > 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. -- 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)