]] Tshepang Lekhonkhobe | It's more like "use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you | can reward me with a few cents". There simply is nothing distasteful | about that.
You don't think so. I do. One of the reasons is it puts a, IMO too low value on other, similar work, so by taking petty donations for small pieces of work, you are lowering the value of my work too. Lowering the value of the work your codevelopers are doing is, IMO, rude. I realise that's not the intention of asking for money, but the effect is there. As I said, I'd rather give my time away for a useful purpose than being paid less than €1/hour, which is about what Raphael cited for what he earns off flattr. (He's posted 13 articles over the last month, each took at least two hours to write, and he's making around €25/month.) | In fact, I find it courageous, considering the taboo surrounding | money. OTOH, a beggar doesn't provide any service at all. My definition of people begging for money include charities asking for money on the street. Those charities usually provide useful services. I guess that wasn't entirely clear from my email. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
