MJ <m...@sci.fi> wrote: > Again, and I really need to highlight this: when the project comes to the \ > position that it is asking for money or die, then the project is also in a \ > requirement to provide financial transparency.
I don't understand this attitude. It is their project, and they can ask for money however they want to. Likewise, it is your money, and you can decide who and for what you want to give it to. $20,000 is reasonable for their electricity cost, and there is no doubt that Theo and the others have produced an OS worth far far far more than $20,000. Count your machines, multiply by X >= $50, and donate that. The list price for Windows Server starts at $501. And which would you rather run? > If money is the question, \ > then a mailing list isn’t the answer - this is 2014 and most of the world \ > couldn’t give a flying shit about email anymore What does this even mean? "Most of the world" still needs to communicate. > (and if I can \ > additionally stick in a side comment regarding antiquity, then give up the \ > FTP already - it’s a dinosaur, it’s unnecessarily complex, and it \ > serves no specific purpose when HTTP is available.) So you're asking them to spend time unconfiguring FTP? It costs very little to leave an FTP server running. FTP is old and creaky, but there's no need to disable working software just to appear hip. I'm sure the developers can figure out when and if FTP begins to use too many resources or be too large a configuration burden. Until then, no need to disrupt what works. - Martin
