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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