[OpenID] Q&A: Who gets to vote?

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

  On 09/18/2008 08:29 PM, Jack Cleaver:
> $100 would pay for a new video card, a daytrip to London (from here in
> Oxford), or quite a few other things I can't afford. If you charge $100
> for membership, you are stating clearly that you don't want anything to
> do with individual volunteers (because nobody will pay for the privilege
> of volunteering). You are in fact emitting strong signals that this is a
> corporate project.
>    

Nothing prevents you from volunteering. Volunteers don't have to be 
members in order to volunteer. Anybody can provide code, write docs, 
propose specs and be involved at the mailing lists and events.

Besides I'm personally fed up to hear the whining of some of the "crowd" 
wherever I go, the minute "it costs something". If you want to be part 
of a local football club or anything else, you must likely have to pay a 
membership fee. But ohohohoo...not so on the Internet...: "I volunteer 
and have to RIGHT to reserve respect, thanks and the whole world for my 
contribution".

I'd happily propose to skip the fee for some third world country member, 
but 100 bucks is a few pint less at the pub...not out of reach for most 
of you...

Sorry for my rant, it's not really personal...you simply happened to say 
those things at this time...


Regards
Signer: 	Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. <http://www.startcom.org>
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