Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> writes: > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
>> Some of us (myself definitely included) are involved in free software >> precisely *because* we're strongly anti-capitalist, anti-marketing, and >> firmly opposed to the economic structures that dominate so much of the >> rest of life. If your plea is for distributions to act more like Apple >> in routing customer money to developers, I think you're going to get a >> quite chilly reception. Avoiding that financial structure based on >> "customers" and "producers" is the whole *point* for some of us. > So would you even oppose, say, the inclusion of a package > "payswarm-donate" that reads a DONATION file from /usr/share/doc/$pkg > (if it exists) and provides a convenient "payswarm-donate $pkg $MONEY" > command that uses Payswarm to transfer money to the destinations > specified in the DONATION file? No, at least not inherently. Debian isn't involved in that sort of transaction; that's just a standard metadata format for upstream or packagers to use plus a client for a web service. The devil, of course, is in the details: handling of that DONATION file is something that would need to be done carefully. I can see the potential for much-increased tension with upstream if it's handled poorly. Personally, I would just install upstream's file verbatim and otherwise ignore it. If the packager wanted to add themselves, that could be tricky. I don't want to be pushy about my personal anti-capitalist bias. Other people don't see the world that way, and that's fine, and even good. Variety is the spice of life and all. I just want to guard my corner where I *don't* have to participate in capitalist structures while working on Debian. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871u7ygax4....@windlord.stanford.edu
