08-14-2008
The Hell of colaboration in UNIX and Linux
I don't want to speak about the goods or bads of both kinds of Operating systems, I only want to share a little experience with you to comment it.
I live in Spain and I have home some old unix systems, some of them that I want to sell or change for other things, like a pair of Sun Blade 2000 and a pseries 44p 170 (IBM AIX RS/6000) and some others that I will be probably throwing away in short like a pair of IBM 43p and a Sun Ultra60.
In my research I haven't found any place to sell my computers (I don't like to use ebay, it looks like when you put 5000 papers diferent sizes on top of your table, open the window, let the wind make his job and use your lighter to give it some fire), and I think that there is people interested on these kind of machines also in my country...
My other experience is that I have posted in some linux forums telling that I want to donate for free my old 43p for example, but I wanted it to be usefull for some project (to help creating a port, help improving hardware drivers in some distros or making some kind of service to the comunity...) and no one has replied to me asking for it.
For my understanding there seems to be a great comunity that studies UNIX, or improves linux, but when you try to help the comunity with somethink like this... there is no clear way to do it.
Thanks for your reading, I hope to see some comment.
PD. Sorry for my bad english.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 $50, ten percent of the profit is
probably less than a dollar; it might be a few cents, or nothing at all.
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 CPU to the GNU Compiler Collection
contribute more; major new features or packages contribute the most.
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.
SEE ALSO
gpl(7), gfdl(7).
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