Hello, I do not know how this micropayment thread started, but I also agree with people that micropayment will hurt freenet.
I beleive so, because not every people has an option for online payment. And not every credit card holder trusts online transactions. Anonimity is a issue, which I beleive can be solved. But this will also slow down transactions which are already slow. (I am not running a free-node currently. Last year I entered free-net for about a week. But I was unable to retrieve most of the keys on the introductory page of freenet proxy. So I gave up.) --- u Uler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm no core developer, but I do have an option on > micropayments. I think > they'd be a great way to raise revenue, and they > might help move Freenet > development forward a little bit. Also, I'd be > willing to pay something > (aka, donate) and I'm thinking about doing so. > However, not everybody has a > lot of money to spare, and I think that the > contributions people are giving > that don't include money are already doing a great > service for Freenet. > > In English, I don't think that micropayments are a > good idea if they are > mandatory. However, I think that Christopher's idea > of having two divisions > of Freenet, one for the general public, and one for > contributors, might > work, and is at least worth a shot to see if it > works. I'm willing to give > it a try. Maybe. > > However, I think that it's important to keep Freenet > free. As in gratis. At > least to use. I think there should still be a public > Freenet, and I think > that the people who run micropayment nodes should > still contribute some of > their node to the general public Freenet. It > shouldn't all go to some sort > of pay network. > > I think that money would make more people want to > run a node, but I think it > would make less people want to use the network. And > I'm not sure that > micropayments are necessary for the network to > actually work. > > Again, I'm willing to give it a thought, and maybe a > try. > > Wesley. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Jim > > Sent: Thursday, 04 July, 2002 11:09 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [freenet-support] Mailing lists and > Micropayments > > > > > > Is there a problem with the mailing lists? I > can't get to the > > info page of > > the other lists to join them and I can't get to > the archives either. > > > > I was going to ask if there was a general > consensus among the developers > > regarding adding micropayments to freenet. Good > idea? Bad Idea? > > Since I > > can't ask there, I'll toss it out here and move it > to tech later. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > support mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech ===== Sukru Tikves, Hacettepe University Computer Engineering Department, Ankara http://piskare.cjb.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
