Thanks for donations

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Feb 19 16:04:00 GMT 2003


I don't think it would be a huge problem.  I would put a nice 
description of each developers contributions on the donations page.  I 
am sure that people would be able to figure out whom is most deserving 
of their praise.

Harold

Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:36:16 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:17:45PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>
>>>>To anyone who has made a donation: thanks!
>>>>
>>>>I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer 
>>>>this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my constantly full 20 GB 
>>>>5400 RPM drive.  I have now setup a cross compiling environment again 
>>>>since I finally have the room to do so.
>>>>
>>>>An interesting note about the drive: The drive is a $150 Maxtor 100 GB 
>>>>with "20 GB free" for 120 GB total... plus I got a $50 mail-in rebate, 
>>>>bringing the total price down to $100.  Their actual 120 GB drive was 
>>>>$150 (no rebate) but had an 8 MB cache instead of a 2 MB cache.  I 
>>>>figured that the cache would be nice, but it wasn't worth a 50% price 
>>>>increase.
>>>>
>>>>Anywho, thanks again for the donations.
>>>
>>>Just a question Harold, have you offered any donations to Kensuke or
>>>to Alexander for their work ?
>>
>>Hasn't Harold suggested that people could contribute links for their own
>>donations?  I don't think it makes sense for someone to be attempting to
>>dole out money.  What would the criteria be?  Better to let the users
>>decide.
> 
> 
> I understand your point, but who in the user community would know who
> to donate too if there are multiple paypal accounts. Unless you read
> CHANGELOG's the user community wouldn't know who to donate to.
> 
> Alan.



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