Attention, iText users! I'm asking you to search deeply in your hearts and wallets/pocketbooks, and head on over to http://1t3xt.com/products/, then click on that little PayPal buttun, to show your appreciation for the excellence of the F/OSS iText project.
There are thousands of us iText users who benefit every day from the iText project, without being required to pay a penny for the use of it. There is no doubt that Bruno Lowagie gives a huge part of his life to iText, despite far more pressing family needs. 'Nuff said. I have a very good reason now to set up my own PayPal account, so I can send some love Bruno's way (for iText, or for his personal discretionary use). Bruno is indeed an International treasure. Let's give him all the support we can. Warmest best regards, Bill Segraves P.S. You can see the rest of the discussion that prompted this appeal down the page a bit, in the customary form of interspersed quoted text and responses. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Bruno Lowagie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > BTW, I see (I think) Real Software is a Belgian company. > > Are you close to Ghent, where Bruno Lowagie is headquartered? > > Real Software is active pretty much everywhere in Belgium. > As a matter of fact, I'm sitting right next to a Real Software > employee at the university. He's being outsourced as a software > architect to Ghent University. I am indeed surprised they're not making more extensive use of iText. > Real Software has just bought Dolmen, who bought JCS a while ago. > I was once a JCS employee for only 6 weeks, but that job wasn't > compatible with running a F/OSS project. I see also that they're CEO's name is Bruno. Must be a name that's reserved for important people in Belgium. You honor him by sharing the same given name. ;-) > The problem with companies like that, is that they use F/OSS, > but they hardly ever invest in it because they fail to see > how that creates a ROI. Managers often overlook the obvious > and don't realize that there's a huge contradiction in my > previous sentence. I'm making a mental note to add a little love for iText to my contributions, right after I achieve the $2,000 goal for The Rotary Foundation -- well, maybe before. In the mean time, I'll look into another way to get some coming your way, among the over 150 users of ScaleAndTile3. It's too bad that companies who use F/OSS aren't more generous in their support of it. The book is certainly worth far more than the purchase price, especially in view of the extraordinary quality and quantity of online support you provide you users. Managers? Don't get me going on that. At the times when I was a manager, I would have dipped into my own pocket to buy a copy of the _iText in Actin_, or any other book, needed to enhance the skill set of one of my people. That realization alone was often enough to convince *my* manager(s) that the purchase of a needed tool, or the granting of a nice raise/bonus to a valued contributor was in the best interests of the company. I'm hoping there will one day be an iText Foundation that can see to the care and feeding (necessities, at least) of iText ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Do you like iText? Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar
