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Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise + funds for GNU development. --> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 5.1, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<title>GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals: Funding</title> + +<meta name="description" content="GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals: Funding"> +<meta name="keywords" content="GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals: Funding"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> +<link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" rel="index" title="Option Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="index.html#Top" rel="up" title="Top"> +<link href="GNU-Project.html#GNU-Project" rel="next" title="GNU Project"> +<link href="Guidelines-for-Options.html#Guidelines-for-Options" rel="previous" title="Guidelines for Options"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} +blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} +div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.indentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.smallindentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em; font-size: smaller} +div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} +kbd {font-style:oblique} +pre.display {font-family: inherit} +pre.format {font-family: inherit} +pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} +pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} +pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} +pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} +pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} +pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} +span.nocodebreak {white-space:nowrap} +span.nolinebreak {white-space:nowrap} +span.roman {font-family:serif; font-weight:normal} +span.sansserif {font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal} +ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000"> +<a name="Funding"></a> +<div class="header"> +<p> +Next: <a href="GNU-Project.html#GNU-Project" accesskey="n" rel="next">GNU Project</a>, Previous: <a href="User-Experience-Guidelines.html#User-Experience-Guidelines" accesskey="p" rel="previous">User Experience Guidelines</a>, Up: <a href="index.html#Top" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<a name="Funding-Free-Software"></a> +<h2 class="unnumbered">Funding Free Software</h2> + +<p>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. +</p> +<p>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. +</p> +<p>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. +</p> +<p>To make this approach work, you must insist on numbers that you can +compare, such as, “We will donate ten dollars to the Frobnitz project +for each disk sold.” Don’t be satisfied with a vague promise, such as +“A portion of the profits are donated,” since it doesn’t give a basis +for comparison. +</p> +<p>Even a precise fraction “of the profits from this disk” 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 $50, ten percent of the profit is probably +less than a dollar; it might be a few cents, or nothing at all. +</p> +<p>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 CPU to the GNU Compiler Collection contribute more; +major new features or packages contribute the most. +</p> +<p>By establishing the idea that supporting further development is “the +proper thing to do” when distributing free software for a fee, we can +assure a steady flow of resources into making more free software. +</p> +<div class="display"> +<pre class="display">Copyright © 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Verbatim copying and redistribution of this section is permitted +without royalty; alteration is not permitted. +</pre></div> + +<hr> +<div class="header"> +<p> +Next: <a href="GNU-Project.html#GNU-Project" accesskey="n" rel="next">GNU Project</a>, Previous: <a href="User-Experience-Guidelines.html#User-Experience-Guidelines" accesskey="p" rel="previous">User Experience Guidelines</a>, Up: <a href="index.html#Top" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |