The Value of Free Software

Don Parris parrisdc at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 22:31:21 UTC 2006


On 7/13/06, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:
>
> Don Parris wrote:
> > Our house-church ministry recently funded the addition of a missing
> > e-mail feature from Evolution.  You can find out more about it here:
> > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/64720/index.html
> >
> > The article was updated, and you'll notice that affects Ubuntu users.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Don
> >
>
> Don, this is a wonderful article.  It does highlight a problem with
> funding of open source features.  It seems to me that one should be able
> to buy shares towards a feature and schedule.  it could work something
> like this:


This is an interesting thought.  We're setting up a special fund to support
similar endeavors.  As a legally chartered non-profit organization, we can
do so.
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