I'd like to donate on a regular basis. What's the easiest, most efficient way to setup this via my PayPal? Send money direct to David's email, or is there a centralized option? Sorry if this is the wrong thread to ask this question, I just figured that it wasn't /too /far off for a tangent.
Thanks, Ben PS. Is there a link to show how much per month the LilyPond project "uses" (costs, hosting, coding hours, etc)? That would give me a better understanding of the entire situation as it stands currently. James Harkins-2 wrote > David Kastrup > <dak <at> > gnu.org> writes: > >> James Harkins > <jamshark70 <at> > gmail.com> writes: >> > Last week, I got a message inviting me to pay my Finale tax. I was >> > very happy to delete it, but not before a good larf. >> >> 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. > > This is an excellent point... thanks for the reminder. > > I've been using Lilypond for about two years now (though not heavily, as > most > of my music is electronic with an improvisatory element). Finale asks for > US$100-120 every year. (This might actually be a bit high for me; I > haven't > upgraded Finale since, oh, 2009.) If I transfer my Finale tax to David, > that's US$300 to cover the last 2 years of use plus the next year in > advance. > For myself, I have to weigh that against the fact that most of my > compositions don't involve a printed score. This is one of the reasons why > I > stopped paying the Finale people. Since I don't use notation software > daily, > it didn't make sense to keep investing the same amount as someone whose > entire oeuvre depends on it. (My daily-use musical tool is SuperCollider, > but > there, I contribute code fixes, documentation and occasionally features.) > > (That's apart from the fact that they *still* can't fix their ridiculous > collision detection failures. In some ways, I think they should charge for > the Garritan instrument library, and then give you a discount for being > forced to suffer Finale's notation mistakes.) > > But... when I need a printed score, I *really* need it, and I'm glad to be > using the best. I do feel I should pay something, appropriate for the > amount > I actually use it. It's very easy to forget that. > > I managed to mess up my PayPal account somehow (it was not clear what to > do > if your bank is in the US but you live in China). I'll come back to that > after I've got it sorted. > > hjh > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ----- composer | sound designer -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Another-happy-lilypond-user-tp143330p143379.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
