Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
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Re: Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
#2Possible reason behind the decision - http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2053908
Re: Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
#3tl;dr: Rich is no longer accepting donations from individuals, but businesses (and presumably not-for-profits as well?) are still encouraged to contribute to the development effort.
There are a bunch of corporate sponsors of Clojure, and the list continues to grow: http://clojure.org/funders
FWIW, Snowtide was the first announced corporate sponsor of Clojure in the 2010 drive, and we'll be renewing that sponsorship for 2011 (I just need to dig myself out of the stuff that accumulated over the past 2 weeks first!).
Re: Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
#4Possible reason behind the decision - http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2053908
I agree with the above
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Re: Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
#5tl;dr: Rich is no longer accepting donations from individuals, but businesses (and presumably not-for-profits as well?) are still encouraged to contribute to the development effort. There are a bunch of corporate sponsors of Clojure, and the list continues to grow: http://clojure.org/funders FWIW, Snowtide was the first announced corporate sponsor of Clojure in the 2010 drive, and we'll be renewing that sponsorship f…
A 14 line article is too long to read?
Re: Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
#6Good for him, no donations should translate in to obligations, they're donations, voluntary and are considered to be a reward for services rendered in the past, not the future.
Typically when someone is as driven as this and you get the output of all the labour that went in to it the proper words are 'thank you' and if you feel like rewarding the creator then that's great. But that does not entitle anybody to future preferential treatment or even any guaranteed output level.
Re: Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
#7Possible reason behind the decision - http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2053908
I doubt that was the whole of it but it probably didn't help.
Re: Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
#8tl;dr: Rich is no longer accepting donations from individuals, but businesses (and presumably not-for-profits as well?) are still encouraged to contribute to the development effort. There are a bunch of corporate sponsors of Clojure, and the list continues to grow: http://clojure.org/funders FWIW, Snowtide was the first announced corporate sponsor of Clojure in the 2010 drive, and we'll be renewing that sponsorship f…
A 14 line article is too long to read?
You'd be surprised by how many people read only comments unless/until they're motivated to read TFA. shrug
Re: Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
#9Good for him, no donations should translate in to obligations, they're donations , voluntary and are considered to be a reward for services rendered in the past, not the future. Typically when someone is as driven as this and you get the output of all the labour that went in to it the proper words are 'thank you' and if you feel like rewarding the creator then that's great. But that does not entitle anybody to future…
Act 2312863 of "how to fund open source software". It's not easy. Indeed, it's pretty much impossible to extract a proportional amount of the value that users derive from your code.
Re: Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
#10Oh well. I hope that the majority of the community is not like that. Just to restore some balance in the universe: I have donated and I don't expect any obligation in return.