Thomas Morley <[email protected]> writes: > Hi David, > > 2012/1/30 David Kastrup <[email protected]>: > [...] >> We have established that it does not make sense to divert work setting >> up generic channels when there is, at the current point of time, a >> single taker and not even enough to go around to support him. > > How to do it different? Should every person, interested in supporting > you, contact you offlist and ask for your bank account?
Well yes, that would be the procedure for larger and/or regular payments. Smaller amounts can go through PayPal for now. > [...] Let me reinsert a relevant part of the [...] here for the sake of our readers: >>> But I'm disappointed about your statements about experienced users. >>> You're right, I'm quite sure I could have solved Helge's problem. >>> But I decided to answer to Brent because he was first. The rest of the >>> day I visited a good friend being in her very last period of lifetime >>> at the hospital. >>> >>> So - very british - I'm not amuzed. >> And I don't think that any number of postings along the line "Dude, how >> come you expect something from me? I, as opposed to you freaks, have a >> life." will really turn the balance to the better. Wouldn't you say that this is what your passage boils down to? Mind you, there is nothing wrong with you having a life. But there would be nothing wrong with me having a life, either. And eating, heating and housing is useful for that. And part of your life, apparently, is filled with music. And keeping LilyPond in good shape is useful for that. > In an other mail of this thread you wrote: > > "Knowledge organizes in pyramids. And one can't build those without the > intermediate layers." > > Will it turn the things better if you alienate all people not > satisfying your expectations? I am not enough of a diplomat to win a single person-to-person battle in the fight to get people to put their money rather than their foot where their mouth is. And even if I were, I would not be getting the equivalent of the time and stomach aches and sleepless nights I spend on them. I can be pretty sure that everyone I start arguing with is lost to my cause. But I learn to lose in more embarrassing ways. I don't have the resources to win a single battle in my fight for funding LilyPond development. But that is less important than winning the war, and that is won in the hearts of the bystanders. I need more of them than I can address individually. How many battles did Gandhi win? I've been a gentleman about funding while being maintainer of AUCTeX (and, at some time, its prime developer). That did not even by far get me back the travelling fees for conferences where I taught people how to make use of the stuff I gave them. You don't beat a sense of economic decency into enough people by being discrete and humble. There is nothing new with that: I again refer to Wilde <URL:http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DevFri.shtml> It is a bit of a painful spectacle for those that actually do the right thing without prodding. I wish they were not outnumbered as severely, but then I have to work with what I got. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
