Well......I did it!

[John McBride]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 19:11, John McBride wrote:
> 
>>Bryan Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> From today - MS-free!
>>>
>>
>>sweet...i made the jump awhile ago and have not regretted it.
> 
> [snipped]
> 
>>fedora 1 is confusing from the "how do i pay" point of view!
> 
> 
>     For right now, here's how you pay for it: in appreciation and
> support.
>
> [snipped]
>

I already consider myself appreciative and supportive of free software, 
web search fairly carefully before asking questions, try not to 
complain, and certainly do not hate any developers.

My point is that until Fedora 1 it was really easy and painless for me 
to arrange for about $1300 a year to go into Linux, and now there is no 
simple "three clicks to satisfaction" way to do that.

 From my end of things, I can just take the $100 or so that comes from 
me personally and give it to a project that seems deserving and has a 
paypal link. I've done that before, but that's kind of problematic for a 
lot of reasons I won't go into. And forget about getting my employer to 
dole out $1200 a year to individuals...not gonna happen, ever.

RedHat up2date licenses were a simple way for a company to get money 
into Linux and now it's gone. I think there is a real monetary loss to 
the community from that decision, one that can't really be compensated 
for by directly paying developers or sending them gifts.