Idea to get money in Squeak community
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Tue Jun 18 17:59:55 UTC 2002
Thanks Stef --
Let me encourage all efforts in this direction. There is absolutely
no problem with Squeakers using Squeak to make money (especially to
help Squeak).
Cheers,
Alan
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At 10:39 AM +0200 6/18/02, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>Hi
>
>Right now even if we want to give money to Squeak we cannot. There
>is no place where I can support Squeak by paying a kind of shareware
>fee or even to get a CD with all the Squeak material. In the school
>of my wife they are paying around 1000 $ for office and they don't
>use it so I do not see why they would not like to get a good cd with
>the major release on it.
>
>This is the same here at the University we could support Squeak but
>at least there should be a way to give money. I hope that ESUG will
>not lose money this year and that we will be able to give the
>purcentage we promised to Squeak. But at the minimum we need to be
>able to do that.
>
>I'm fed up to see that people are afraid to make money with Squeak
>because this could
>be a problem for SqueakC. Alan said it was not.
>
>So are the German Squeakers in the mood to get money? I can send you
>the cd with all the material I collected.
>Tansel what are your plans?
>
>Stef
>
>
>Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
> "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
> different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
> might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
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