On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:23:50AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > Both organizations, SPI and GNU, serve free software in an excellent way. > > Both are sponsoring third party projects from time to time. > > A complication that comes up as soon as you start looking at money is that > there is then need for someone to be responsible to decide what to do with > it. > > SPI defines its financial policy here: > <http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/resolution-1998-09-24.2> > > And that policy really doesn't say much about what what they're going to > spend where on what.
The money is distributed among worthful free software projects _if and only if_ it is not marked for a special purpose. If you mark it for Debian on the money transfer, it is the Debian project which decides how to spent it. Usually, we will pay our Internic costs, buy sometimes hardware for our project (_not_ for individual developers) such as hard discs, and other such costs. > There may not be a big problem when the amounts of money are tiny. When the > amount of money is small, it should be pretty easy to decide that "We can > pay for ``So and so'' to work full time on ``foo'' for 3 months." We don't pay people to work for us. We all work voluntary. All we need to cover is our expense. We are a non-profit organization. Our expense is minimal, and so is our financial ressource. Money donated to us will be used directly for the benefit of the project. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
