On 08/17/2010 05:43 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: >> Hello, >> >> there is a new advent on the Internet horizon which is the social >> micropayment. Regular web users pay in some money and distribute that >> with respect to their clicks in the web. I feel that Debian should >> somehow participate with that, i.e. we should have links whenever we >> display a package in the bts or in the pts, that allows the user to >> "flattr" or otherwise support that package. The amount collected >> should then go to upstream. Maybe we should not do this for all >> packages but only when upstream asks for it. >> >> Needless to say, there should be separate opportunities for Debian >> and its Blends to collect money by the same mechanism. What do you >> think? We don't talk about much money here. At least not yet. It is >> more of a general decision. And it is also interesting to see what >> bits of Debian, beyond popcon, the users like best. > I dislike the thought of endorsing and promoting specific monetary > mechanisms, which is in reality what we do by adding such links. I agree. If we go for one, then we should go for all. This is also why I would like Debian to collect the money and forward it in batches, rather than forwarding to a collection page of upstream (which we could also do).
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