On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18:27, Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> wrote: > ]] 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.
I don't understand this argument. How does it lower the value of other's work? > 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.) Matter of preference, nothing more. > | 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. So, you don't like charities asking for money? I say this because you mentioned that you don't like begging. -- blog: http://tshepang.tumblr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
