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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