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Re: Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The question here is: does your answer worth $1? anybody here can share experience on that? :)

You have to pay $1 to find out.

But you just established that you're willing to dole out freebies.

Edit: nope, as mentioned below. Oops.

Re: Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?

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I find it interesting that you can write RMS, the leader of the Free Software movement, and he'll respond to you within the day for no charge because he think's that's a morally important thing to do. You can in contrast write Marc Andreessen, one of the figure heads of the propriatary software and privacy violating movement of every bigger information companies, and he'll charge you for the pleasure.

Interesting dichotomy, at least to me.

Re: Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?

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I find it interesting that you can write RMS, the leader of the Free Software movement, and he'll respond to you within the day for no charge because he think's that's a morally important thing to do. You can in contrast write Marc Andreessen, one of the figure heads of the propriatary software and privacy violating movement of every bigger information companies, and he'll charge you for the pleasure. Interesting dic…

Interesting. Have you ever written to RMS?

Re: Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?

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I find it interesting that you can write RMS, the leader of the Free Software movement, and he'll respond to you within the day for no charge because he think's that's a morally important thing to do. You can in contrast write Marc Andreessen, one of the figure heads of the propriatary software and privacy violating movement of every bigger information companies, and he'll charge you for the pleasure. Interesting dic…

The money's all being donated. It's a fundraiser.

Re: Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?

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I find it interesting that you can write RMS, the leader of the Free Software movement, and he'll respond to you within the day for no charge because he think's that's a morally important thing to do. You can in contrast write Marc Andreessen, one of the figure heads of the propriatary software and privacy violating movement of every bigger information companies, and he'll charge you for the pleasure. Interesting dic…

Sometimes RMS's access to technology limits the value of his responses, however.. ;-) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.linux.advoca...

Re: Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?

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Yes. I paid $100 because I want to encourage volunteering. > To Marc Andreessen. From Joel Parker Henderson. Hi Marc, what are some of your favorite charity causes that could benefit from pro bono coding help? I work at [X] and we have many programmers who volunteer for social progressive causes; we love coding and we love to help. Thank you, Joel

Normally volunteers are not paid $100 / answer to question, just saying.

Re: Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?

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I find it interesting that you can write RMS, the leader of the Free Software movement, and he'll respond to you within the day for no charge because he think's that's a morally important thing to do. You can in contrast write Marc Andreessen, one of the figure heads of the propriatary software and privacy violating movement of every bigger information companies, and he'll charge you for the pleasure. Interesting dic…

while i see your point, one important thing to note is that Marc's fee goes to charity.

Re: Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?

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post #24

I find it interesting that you can write RMS, the leader of the Free Software movement, and he'll respond to you within the day for no charge because he think's that's a morally important thing to do. You can in contrast write Marc Andreessen, one of the figure heads of the propriatary software and privacy violating movement of every bigger information companies, and he'll charge you for the pleasure. Interesting dic…

Interesting. Have you ever written to RMS?

Two or three times. Once about emacs, and I think the others were either questions about the morality of specific program distrobution methods. His responces were long winded and tailored to my situation although they did include his talking points.

It's listed at https://stallman.org/ under "Please send comments on these web pages to rms at gnu period org."

He'll happily explain or debate any points he has with you although there is a standard 24hr return time for every email because of the way he processes all of his emails he gets. He's got a post about how he does it efficiently somewhere.

Re: Ask HN: Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?

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post #16

Yes. I paid $100 because I want to encourage volunteering. > To Marc Andreessen. From Joel Parker Henderson. Hi Marc, what are some of your favorite charity causes that could benefit from pro bono coding help? I work at [X] and we have many programmers who volunteer for social progressive causes; we love coding and we love to help. Thank you, Joel

why didn't you just talk to your favorite charities instead of deferring that judgement to Andreessen
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