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16685766 The Python tempita module should be added to Userland
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16693200 The Python repoze.lru module should be added to Userland
16699958 The Python webob module should be added to Userland
16699986 The Python paste module should be added to Userland
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16724221 The Python routes module should be added to Userland
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16732673 add the Python warlock module to Userland
16734803 The Python formencode module should be added to Userland
16734806 The Python kombu module should be added to Userland
16734807 The Python httplib2 module should be added to Userland
16734808 The Python boto module should be added to Userland
16734812 The Python py-amqp module should be added to Userland
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16756023 The Python filechunkio module should be added to Userland
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16789370 add the Python pyrabbit module to Userland
17079852 The Python six module should be added to Userland
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17171787 The Python cmd2 module should be added to Userland
17171805 The Python suds module should be added to Userland
17171821 The Python alembic module should be added to Userland
17171836 The Python requests module should be added to Userland
17171847 The Python markupsafe module should be added to Userland
17285026 The Python importlib module should be added to Userland
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.IX Title "FSF-FUNDING 7"
.TH FSF-FUNDING 7 "2004-11-05" "gcc-3.4.3" "GNU"
.SH "NAME"
fsf\-funding \- Funding Free Software
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
.Sh "Funding Free Software"
.IX Subsection "Funding Free Software"
If you want to have more free software a few years from now, it makes
sense for you to help encourage people to contribute funds for its
development. The most effective approach known is to encourage
commercial redistributors to donate.
.PP
Users of free software systems can boost the pace of development by
encouraging for-a-fee distributors to donate part of their selling price
to free software developers\-\-\-the Free Software Foundation, and others.
.PP
The way to convince distributors to do this is to demand it and expect
it from them. So when you compare distributors, judge them partly by
how much they give to free software development. Show distributors
they must compete to be the one who gives the most.
.PP
To make this approach work, you must insist on numbers that you can
compare, such as, ``We will donate ten dollars to the Frobnitz project
for each disk sold.'' Don't be satisfied with a vague promise, such as
``A portion of the profits are donated,'' since it doesn't give a basis
for comparison.
.PP
Even a precise fraction ``of the profits from this disk'' is not very
meaningful, since creative accounting and unrelated business decisions
can greatly alter what fraction of the sales price counts as profit.
If the price you pay is \f(CW$50\fR, ten percent of the profit is probably
less than a dollar; it might be a few cents, or nothing at all.
.PP
Some redistributors do development work themselves. This is useful too;
but to keep everyone honest, you need to inquire how much they do, and
what kind. Some kinds of development make much more long-term
difference than others. For example, maintaining a separate version of
a program contributes very little; maintaining the standard version of a
program for the whole community contributes much. Easy new ports
contribute little, since someone else would surely do them; difficult
ports such as adding a new \s-1CPU\s0 to the \s-1GNU\s0 Compiler Collection contribute more;
major new features or packages contribute the most.
.PP
By establishing the idea that supporting further development is ``the
proper thing to do'' when distributing free software for a fee, we can
assure a steady flow of resources into making more free software.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fIgpl\fR\|(7), \fIgfdl\fR\|(7).
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (c) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Verbatim copying and redistribution of this section is permitted
without royalty; alteration is not permitted.