Re: [boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-20 Thread Greg Colvin
Just a reminder that Boost is freely licensed, so that nothing stops anyone from putting together a Boost distribution and exchanging copies of it for donations to whatever charity they want, or to their own pockets. ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http

Re: [boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-20 Thread David Abrahams
Alisdair Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gennaro Prota wrote: > >> I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of >> libraries. The idea is that we choose a list of associations and >> bodies, and set up a mechanism, through the boost site or another >> site, where downlo

Re: [boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-20 Thread William E. Kempf
Rene Rivera said: > [2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: > >>On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:19:15 -0600, Rene Rivera >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>[2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: >>> I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of libraries. >>> >>>Why? >> >>What a question!

[boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-20 Thread Alisdair Meredith
Gennaro Prota wrote: > The argument about contradicting the boost purpose, raised by someone > else, is totally unwarranted as well. Boost would remain exactly the > same it is now: donation would be a "side effect". My point (being someone else) is that side effect is to fund something entire

[boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-20 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:06:10 -0600, Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: > >>What a question! Because that would mean making good deeds. > >You shouldn't need Boost to do good deeds ;-) Indeed. The idea is that we choose a list of associations and bod

Re: [boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread Rene Rivera
[2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: >On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:19:15 -0600, Rene Rivera ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: >> >>>I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of >>>libraries. >> >>Why? > >What a question! Because that would mean making g

[boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread Alisdair Meredith
Gennaro Prota wrote: > I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of > libraries. The idea is that we choose a list of associations and > bodies, and set up a mechanism, through the boost site or another > site, where download is possible only by making a donation to one of > t

[boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread David B. Held
"Gennaro Prota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of > libraries. The idea is that we choose a list of associations and > bodies, and set up a mechanism, through the boost site or anothe

[boost] Re: Boost as charity-ware

2003-01-19 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:19:15 -0600, Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[2003-01-19] Gennaro Prota wrote: > >>I would *love* to see boost becoming a charity-ware collection of >>libraries. > >Why? What a question! Because that would mean making good deeds. >>The idea is that we choose a lis