On Tue, June 18, 2013 04:31, Martin Owens wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> site requesting user's charity > > You mean user's involvement. You don't want users to be invited to > participate in Debian. Debian isn't elitist and it shouldn't care that > the tool being deployed is money rather than time.
Money isn't neutral and has specific social effects when it comes into play, that are different from other resources such as time. So we should care. I recommend you (or anyone else for that matter) read "What Money Can't Buy" by Michael Sandel. It describes very well the unique features that money can introduce into an equation. Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/050a23d1a19b33aaadae0d352c097b81.squir...@aphrodite.kinkhorst.nl
