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Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior [message #74911 is a reply to message #74910]

Wed, 09 February 2011 08:38

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002

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David Fanning wrote:
> Guillermo writes:
>
>> I know is none of my business, but have you considered adding a Google
>> Checkout button in your website? That way people who are willing to
>> contribute to supporting the free services you provide to the
>> community could do so. Hawthorne Beyer, a guy who is famous in the
>> ESRI user community for providing for free awesome tools, has
>> circumvented the legal intricacies of international donations by
>> asking folks to support the project by purchasing "consulting
>> services" that will result in the improvement of the software (http://
>> www.spatialecology.com/gme/gmepurchasing.htm).
>
> Timely advice. I am setting up a new store front now.
> I'll give this some serious thought. :-)
>
> I've always had a button to accept donations on my
> web page, and I have always matched those donations
> one-to-one and sent any receipts to various charities.
> I had visions at one point of becoming a community
> philanthropist. Alas, the expected "donations" did not
> materialize. It has amounted to perhaps $1000 donated,
> even with my matching funds, over the past 10 years.

I'm confused. I have several times thought to donate to your website for the work you do/services you provide, but I
always interpreted the donation button as "any $$ donated will be forwarded onto a charity, with matching $$".

The two things that occur to me are:
1) If I wanted to donate to a charity, I would do it myself.
2) If you are matching any donations, you obviously don't need any donations for your IDL efforts to begin with.

Oh, and yes, I have become a total curmudgeon (I blame living in DC for 10+ years :o)

cheers,

paulv

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[Message index]

		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: David Fanning on Wed, 09 February 2011 08:57
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 09 February 2011 08:38
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: David Fanning on Wed, 09 February 2011 07:09
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: guillermo.castilla.ca on Wed, 09 February 2011 06:54
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 08 February 2011 08:26
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: pgrigis on Tue, 08 February 2011 07:30
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: David Fanning on Mon, 07 February 2011 16:50
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 07 February 2011 15:59
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Gray on Mon, 07 February 2011 14:07
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 09 February 2011 10:30
		Re: A Plea for Fair Behavior By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 09 February 2011 10:33

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