On 06 Jun 2002, Tom Allison wrote: > I have an idea that I would like to propose to the Debian Collective. > > I have no care to purchase any of the Debian CD's as the network > installation and burning my own ISO's covers everything that I could > ever wish for. > > But I feel that it is important that I make some contribution to the > Debian group by making some kind of donation to the core Debian.org > from time to time. Especially when I'm feeling really warm and > fuzzy about Debians performance. > > I would like to ask that debian.org consider setting up a PayPal > account to accept donations. >
[snip] Several of us debated this at some length 4-5 months ago; see the archives for about 21/01/2002. The problem is particularly acute if one is outside the USA. Like you, I should have thought a Paypal account would be the way to go, but it doesn't seem to have been taken up. I did in the end manage to send a small contribution via someone who kindly provided the facility for me, but it wasn't easy. Perhaps it's the decentralized nature of Linux in general and Debian in particular that makes it difficult to set up a pathway for donations, but it does seem a pity. AC -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For electronic books on the Assassins and on homeopathy, skeptical essays, and over 170 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
