Hello, On 08/17/2010 09:49 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> writes: > >> there is a new advent on the Internet horizon which is the social >> micropayment. Regular web users pay in some money and distribute that >> with respect to their clicks in the web. I feel that Debian should >> somehow participate with that, i.e. we should have links whenever we >> display a package in the bts or in the pts, that allows the user to >> "flattr" or otherwise support that package. The amount collected should >> then go to upstream. Maybe we should not do this for all packages but >> only when upstream asks for it. > > So far, these systems look like a great way for the micropayment broker to > make money and rather iffy for everyone else involved. I'm dubious about well certainly they get a share. > the desirability of the project as a whole making a substantial > contribution to Flattr, which in practice is what this would mean at the > moment. I am in no way tied to Flattr. If you know something better then let's go for that. And we could indeed postpone any per-package-collection until we have some more experience with it all.
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