For bitcoin donations, you can go to [1], which gives the address as 12LKeo24XCzgz6ASSxcUa8BvUfzkEyCpGq [2]. The address is not generated per user, and is dedicated to GnuPG. [1] https://www.wauland.de/en/donation.nojs.html [2] https://blockchain.info/address/12LKeo24XCzgz6ASSxcUa8BvUfzk...
Wow, check out today's donations. There are multiple 1+ BTC and one for 10 BTC. Over US$8000 donated today!
Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
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Re: Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
#292Let's send him some money directly: https://www.tilt.com/campaigns/werner-koch-deserves-to-get-p...
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
Making people pay for software might still be evil, but supporting software with teaching how to use it, documenting it, publishing books about it, making conferences, supporting it is what I think is a reasonable way for oss spirited souls to make money. SQLite comes as an example - while completely free, public-domain, what might (I don't know for sure) be making money for the three people behind it is the extensiv…
Making people pay for software is not evil. It is not giving those same people the source code that is evil. This is because by not giving them the source code you are keeping your users under your thumb and not allowing them the freedom to improve their lot.
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/
Free. Improve your lot however you like.
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#294I wonder sometimes if this is the legacy that RMS was thinking about. Sometimes, in my more cynical moments, it seems like we have somehow managed to trick a whole generation of programmers into giving "free stuff" to the world, enabling the creation of the very successful mega corporations which have then kept the value for themselves. Would it be impossible to create some sort of stipend program at FSF? After all t…
Somewhat ironically, the GPL is much more amenable to getting money from software than the Apache, BSD, and other more permissive licenses. Most profitable companies built around Open Source software use the GPL (Apache being the notable exception).
There's simply very little reason for someone to pay for BSD licensed software, but there is reason to pay for GPLed software (even if only to get a different license for it).
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the link, just donated!
This might be one of a few places where I will upvote "me too"-comments. And, as others have pointed out it is easy and you can choose between cc and PayPal.
This is one of the few instances that I've heard about something for the first time and immediately pulled out my credit card to donate.
Re: Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
#296Let's send him some money directly: https://www.tilt.com/campaigns/werner-koch-deserves-to-get-p...
Why is that better than the GnuPG donate page: https://www.gnupg.org/donate/index.html?
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#298Just announced - "Stripe and Facebook are going to sponsor @gnupg development with $50k/year each." - https://twitter.com/stripe/status/563449352635432960
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Wow, and that was fast. Is there some sort of secret Silicon Valley startup hotline where these deals get set up?
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this address verifiable on the GPG site?
See: https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html The Wau Holland Stiftung takes the BTC and pays it out to the GnuPG project. Its a foundation that has its roots in the CCC and supports all kind of open source and/or hactivists projects.
Named for Wau Holland, one of the founders of the CCC (and the Datenschleuder):