[Dev] *URGENT* Proposal to organise Parabola

hellekin hellekin at gnu.org
Fri Dec 5 23:59:41 GMT 2014


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On 12/05/2014 07:10 PM, Nicolás Reynolds wrote:
> 
> another model is to offer services based on parabola.  most of the
> servers i maintain, for monetary benefit or not, are parabolas B)
> 
*** Another COMPLEMENTARY model, and certainly not the only one, and
certainly not available to users.  That is a strawman argument that
simply confirms my argumentation.

In the case of the GNU project, that would mean hiring more people just
to take care of the paying services, because the current team of
staffers is already under water.  Yet, they provide gratis services,
such as Savannah, LibrePlanet, etc.

There is a huge and gratuitous misunderstanding in the free software
community about some ideal of purity that involves gratuity.  Gratuity,
especially in the domain of computing and Internet, usually is a
by-product of vast capital that uses it to destroy competition and force
it into submission or self-reliance.  Unfortunately, as the accent is
put on efficiency and quality, i.e. open-source, instead of solidarity,
any attempt at including payment or retribution in the free software
community is met with gratuitous hostility.

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hk
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