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From: Imre Solti <isolti@×××××××××.edu>
To: Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o>
Cc: Caleb Tennis <caleb@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 02:04:40
Message-Id: 4022F630.8020600@mail2.vcu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree by Lisa Seelye
1 Donations are harder to push through in management then payment for
2 actual (even if limited to downloadable security updates) service.
3 Imre
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5 Lisa Seelye wrote:
6 > On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 10:45, Caleb Tennis wrote:
7 >
8 >>Hi Kurt,
9 >>
10 >>This is an awesome GLEP idea, and I'm glad it finally got put into written
11 >>words. The one suggestion I have, which I am sure is up for a large amount
12 >>of criticism, is that I think Gentoo should charge a fee for the use of this
13 >>tree. This is, in my opinion, a premium service, and a I believe it should
14 >>come with a premium price, even if it's as low as 5 dollars per quarter.
15 >>
16 >>But maybe I'm totally off base here.
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20 > I don't think its feasible to charge people for access, unless we make a
21 > completely separate tree and keep it from the public.
22 >
23 > I think a better method would be to include a "Hey! Don't forget our
24 > PayPal button!!" message.
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