Re: [emacs-tangents] Donation-Based Economic System vs Direct Purchasing of Free Software
2025-08-11
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Pyromania via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
On Mon, Aug 11 2025, Jean Louis wrote: > * Pyromania [2025-08-10 17:54]: >> On Fri, Aug 08 2025, Jean Louis wrote: >> > * Pyromania [2025-08-08 12:35]: >> >> Many changes they are making in Gnome doesn't need any >> >> contribution; old, well tested and solid stable features just has >> >> be
Re: [emacs-tangents] Donation-Based Economic System vs Direct Purchasing of Free Software
* Pyromania [2025-08-10 17:54]: > On Fri, Aug 08 2025, Jean Louis wrote: > > > * Pyromania [2025-08-08 12:35]: > >> Many changes they are making in Gnome doesn't need any contribution; > >> old, well tested and solid stable features just has been removed. > >> Hundreds complained, blog posts wr
Re: [emacs-tangents] Donation-Based Economic System vs Direct Purchasing of Free Software
2025-08-10
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Pyromania via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
On Fri, Aug 08 2025, Jean Louis wrote: > * Pyromania [2025-08-08 12:35]: >> Many changes they are making in Gnome doesn't need any contribution; >> old, well tested and solid stable features just has been removed. >> Hundreds complained, blog posts writen, issues opened, people >> migrated to ot
Re: [emacs-tangents] Donation-Based Economic System vs Direct Purchasing of Free Software
* Pyromania [2025-08-08 12:35]: > Many changes they are making in Gnome doesn't need any contribution; old, > well tested and solid stable features just has been removed. Hundreds > complained, blog posts writen, issues opened, people migrated to other DEs, > forks suffered, apps broken, compa
Re: [emacs-tangents] Donation-Based Economic System vs Direct Purchasing of Free Software
2025-08-08
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Pyromania via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
On 8 August 2025 04:53:57 UTC, Jean Louis wrote: >* Pyromania [2025-08-07 23:57]: >> > You may contribute and improve whatever you wish. Look there are >> > different forks of Gnome. >> >> My or a few others’ contribution to Gnome and/or GTK doesn’t change the >> direction they are heading to.
Re: [emacs-tangents] Donation-Based Economic System vs Direct Purchasing of Free Software
2025-08-07
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Psionic K via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
Thanks guys, I suppose it became known that I am active in this field. I'm quite busy at programming, but one of the first problems I'm solving is called "the volunteer's dilemma". You can see my prototype on https://prizeforge.com. It's just a more advanced Kickstarter funding threshold right
Re: [emacs-tangents] Donation-Based Economic System vs Direct Purchasing of Free Software
* Pyromania [2025-08-07 23:57]: > > You may contribute and improve whatever you wish. Look there are > > different forks of Gnome. > > My or a few others’ contribution to Gnome and/or GTK doesn’t change the > direction they are heading to. However, that’s another topic. You may put yourself in
Re: [emacs-tangents] Donation-Based Economic System vs Direct Purchasing of Free Software
2025-08-07
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Pyromania via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
On Thu, Aug 07 2025, Jean Louis wrote: * Pyromania [2025-08-07 20:34]: On Thu, Aug 07 2025, Jean Louis wrote: > * Pyromania [2025-08-07 19:43]: >> I want to add that, I hope to see more donation based >> things. I guess FSF is one example, right? > Here are 5 well-known donation-bas
[emacs-tangents] Donation-Based Economic System vs Direct Purchasing of Free Software
* Pyromania [2025-08-07 20:34]: > On Thu, Aug 07 2025, Jean Louis wrote: > > > * Pyromania [2025-08-07 19:43]: > >> I want to add that, I hope to see more donation based things. > >> I guess FSF is one example, right? > > > Here are 5 well-known donation-based free software projects: > > > 1.
