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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH "NAME" +fsf\-funding \- Funding Free Software +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +.SS "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, \*(L"We will donate ten dollars to the Frobnitz project +for each disk sold.\*(R" Don't be satisfied with a vague promise, such as +\&\*(L"A portion of the profits are donated,\*(R" since it doesn't give a basis +for comparison. +.PP +Even a precise fraction \*(L"of the profits from this disk\*(R" 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 \*(L"the +proper thing to do\*(R" 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. |