On Mar 24, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Alberto Simões wrote: > Hi > > On 24/03/13 14:55, David Kastrup wrote: >> Well, I am somewhat unhappy with that focus on the pricing of Finale as >> my own work is being funded by LilyPond users who are typically paying >> somewhat more to substantially more than the "Finale tax" would entail. >> >> For them, the important difference obviously is not that Finale costs >> money to use. On the one hand, they get quite more in return for their >> payment than the right to run a single copy. On the other hand, >> everybody else gets the same, without paying. > > Given I use lilypond a lot for my own websites (that are also free work, but > whatever) I went to lilypond website to check if there was an easy way to > donate, but it only contains information about "exchanging money with > features". Shouldn't a simplified "donate" button be placed somewhere in the > website?
This is a discussion that has been had several times. The issue is that the Lilypond project does not have a central manager to act as accountant and to divvy out donations; doing so would add a tremendous overhead. The current funding system is for contributors to work directly with developers and pay them directly, e.g., through bounties to address specific problems or desires. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
