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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode"> On 09/18/2008 08:29 PM,
Jack Cleaver:
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<pre wrap="">$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.
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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.<br>
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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".<br>
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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...<br>
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Sorry for my rant, it's not really personal...you simply happened to
say those things at this time... <br>
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