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- From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
- Subject: Re: Paying off Linus' PC (was: Linux Standards)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.164837.25745@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
- Organization: You must be kidding!
- References: <1992Aug18.070709.16015@trl.oz.au> <1992Aug19.162616.3357@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Aug21.065950.8463@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:48:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug21.065950.8463@klaava.Helsinki.FI> of comp.os.linux,
- torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- > I hate to follow up to a thread that might actually be profitable for
- > me, but I felt I had to clarify a few points - especially if there are
- > new linux users out there reading the thread.
- >
- > If people feel they want to send me money (indirectly or directly) as a
- > token of appreciation, that's very much ok by me (surprise, surprise),
- > but a token of appreciation is all it is going to be. Yes, I'll be able
- > to pay off my machine more quickly or even get a bigger harddisk or
- > whatever, but sending me money won't get you any better service - this
- > is definitely not a "registration fee" or anything like that.
- >
- > The above just means that (a) even if you don't send any money I won't
- > mind in the least that you use linux, and when I answer questions etc I
- > won't check if you sent me money first. And (b) even if you sent me
- > money, any features you propose/want will get no extra priority. In
- > fact, trying to make me feel guilty over money ("after all, I paid you
- > $20 for this") is likely to get the exact opposite reaction.
- >
- > Finally, I won't give any guarantees of what the money will be used for:
- > if you add some kind of message giving preferences ("use it to pay off
- > your computer"), I'll naturally follow them within reasonable limits,
- > but I might just use them to pay off my "beer&pizza"-debts (*), which
- > might be against your religion or whatever.
-
- I am *glad* to hear this... and as I said before, I am *not* going to ask
- *at all* what the money is being used for. Still, being a student and
- being from Scandinavia I know it is not that easy all the time to stay
- liquid. In short, DON'T SEND MONEY IF YOU EXPECT ANYTHING IN RETURN. I
- would refuse to have anything to do with this if Linus were to start
- treating Linux like shareware.
-
- /hpa
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