God gives you $10

[L33F3R]

One day you open up your Paypal account to find that God has given you $10.00 . If you don't have a Paypal account or don't believe in god pretend for a second you do.

You read the message and it says the fallowing:

This money is to be donated to an open source project of your choice.

RULES

The money must not be to your own project.
You may not retrieve the money back.
The project must use a Free Software Foundation license (GPL ect...).
The project must be active.
You cant give it to a friends project.


So who do you give the $10 to?

[benmoran]

The Gnash project.

[deanjo]

The project must use a Free Software Foundation license (GPL ect...).



Well that eliminates every single project I donate too.

[ferreira]

Rockbox project.

[L33F3R]

Rockbox project.

ha yes thats a good 1 ;)

[joffe]

Not sure why you're mandating an FSF license.. Oh well.

OpenBTS team. Because OpenBTS is cool and those guys really need the money to fend off the patent sharks.:(

[L33F3R]

FSF because it regulates the scope. Nothings wrong with other free licenses i suppose it just adds some definition to the question.

[curaga]

Mplayer.

Absolutely

[EarthMind]

There are so many choices that I find it very hard to choose but these would certainly be considered: MPlayer and Urban Terror.

[L33F3R]

common theme with mplayer?

[Baraclese]

Flashrom, because they wrote a patch for my old motherboard so that I could flash my bios. I've always thought that if someday I have a lot of money I'd sponsor a few projects that I really like, maybe donate a few servers or something.

[DanL]

Well that eliminates every single project I donate too.

NOTE: Buying Nvidia stock to fuel development of their blob does not count as a donation as far as this thread is concerned. :rolleyes:

[BlackStar]

The Mono project. Or Banshee. Or Mesa3d. But probaby Mono.

[Ant P.]

Probably swfdec.

[deanjo]

NOTE: Buying Nvidia stock to fuel development of their blob does not count as a donation as far as this thread is concerned. :rolleyes:

That didn't even come to mind. PD projects are the only ones I donate too.

[L33F3R]

I've always thought that if someday I have a lot of money I'd sponsor a few projects that I really like, maybe donate a few servers or something.

well the reason i made this thread is to help me decide what project to donate 10 bucks towards :). I am by no means a rich man (as i am a student) but I do believe that people who dedicate their time with no profit in mind deserve more then we give them. I lack the ability to program very well and am piss poor with photoshop/gimp so I can best contribute to the open source community by way of donating every once in a while.

Perhaps I could also contribute by creating levels for these FOSS games :D.

[joffe]

NOTE: Buying Nvidia stock to fuel development of their blob does not count as a donation as far as this thread is concerned. :rolleyes:

..

Yeah, because apart from FSF-approved licenses there's only proprietary blobs out there. :rolleyes: Some openmindedness there..

[bugmenot]

Coreboot probably, for flashrom and coreboot itself. Free us from buggy BIOS implementations.
Maybe AMD/ATI for their free drivers.
rockbox if they port to an iRiver E100

[hax0r]

$10 is nothing, it will hardly help, if anything at all. If I was rich I would hire full time developers to work on projects like X.org plus donate $1M. I think my $10 will go to... xmms?

[DanL]

Yeah, because apart from FSF-approved licenses there's only proprietary blobs out there. :rolleyes: Some openmindedness there..

The humor was somewhat esoteric. Don't worry, IT AMUSED ME AND THAT'S ALL THAT COUNTS.

EDIT: And to answer the question, I would donate it the FSF.

[Aradreth]

well the reason i made this thread is to help me decide what project to donate 10 bucks towards :).
Donate it to a project YOU want to continue or use a lot not what other people want. Think for yourself.

[L33F3R]

$10 is nothing, it will hardly help

its not they money that matters, its the thought that counts. If you have a million dollars please by all means go ahead and commercialize open source. But when you are that quiet developer doing a small project that noone donates to and one day you receive that 10 bucks, you feel pretty damn good.

look at vector linux donations list (http://vector2.ecosq.com/donations)

If you donated $10 you would be in the hall of fame for 2008. Its a distribution for heavens sakes.

but dont worry, its only #17 on distrowatch. Its only above useless distros like gentoo, KNOPPIX, Xubuntu, Redhat, and even solaris (which isnt really a linux distro).

[L33F3R]

Donate it to a project YOU want to continue or use a lot not what other people want. Think for yourself.

lol i do every few weeks. I decided to mix it up this time.

[Ex-Cyber]

Either ReactOS or coreboot. Both are generally underappreciated compared to their potential benefits, and they don't have gobs of corporate sponsorship like a lot of high-profile projects.

[susikala]

ffmpeg, most likely. Maybe Linuxmint, although I don't even use it.

[L33F3R]

Either ReactOS or coreboot. Both are generally underappreciated compared to their potential benefits, and they don't have gobs of corporate sponsorship like a lot of high-profile projects.

both very very interesting projects :).

[W3ird_N3rd]

Kaffeine, wine.. Those names come to mind. Note that not all projects have options for donations. DBAN, linuxtv, mplayer and last but not least ffmpeg also come to mind but do not seem to have options for donations.

Oh well, just donated $20 to Kaffeine and $20 to wine. I know, that's $40 together and not $10.

I guess God just likes me better than you. ;)

[L33F3R]

lol I think its because i dont belive ;)

[W3ird_N3rd]

I don't believe either, and I'm still getting four times more money from God than you. If I'm wrong and there is a God, I'll probably get VIP tickets for Heaven when I die. :D You can bring me popcorn. :)

[cb88]

#1 Haiku OS ... uses a BSD/MIT alike license which is listed as GPL compatible on the FSF site
#2 Mesa3d cool stuff going on there aswell as being platform independant which is a plus in my book

[L33F3R]

I don't believe either, and I'm still getting four times more money from God than you. If I'm wrong and there is a God, I'll probably get VIP tickets for Heaven when I die. :D You can bring me popcorn. :)

How about a beer? :D

#1 Haiku OS ... uses a BSD/MIT alike license which is listed as GPL compatible on the FSF site
#2 Mesa3d cool stuff going on there aswell as being platform independant which is a plus in my book

haiku looks nifty :)

[energyman]

xine (mplayer sucks) or KDE

[Hephasteus]

I would give it to the RIAA. They really need to protect us from open software. Open software makes things easy and abundant and I know you are thinking easy and abundant is a great way to live. But I have to tell you that it's not. That's a lie. Easy and abundant breaks our business model of aritificial availability through high prices. I mean look at our industry. We have over 50 billion dollars worth of stolen goods. It's just not right. The mere fact that god and society has made people so poor that they are not able to afford our products. How can the people who can afford our products feel special and superior to the unwashed ilk if we are not allowed to use our cruelty on them. If we can't throw them in jail and have them feel powerless and defeated then it totally breaks our model of rarity and the haves and have nots.

Please please stop supporting open software. We have to justify our cruelty and you all are making it hard to do. Because we want cruelty to be abundant and easily available. While kindness becomes rarer and rarer and more valuable. It's been so long since we have had so many people feel small and powerless and completely limited and governed by rule of law. All we want is unchecked unlimited power. All we need is to completely check and limit you. Is that so much to ask?

Please stop this open software insanity and give acceptable offerings to a CEO near you.

[L33F3R]

I would give it to the RIAA. They really need to protect us from open software. Open software makes things easy and abundant and I know you are thinking easy and abundant is a great way to live. But I have to tell you that it's not. That's a lie. Easy and abundant breaks our business model of aritificial availability through high prices. I mean look at our industry. We have over 50 billion dollars worth of stolen goods. It's just not right. The mere fact that god and society has made people so poor that they are not able to afford our products. How can the people who can afford our products feel special and superior to the unwashed ilk if we are not allowed to use our cruelty on them. If we can't throw them in jail and have them feel powerless and defeated then it totally breaks our model of rarity and the haves and have nots.

Please please stop supporting open software. We have to justify our cruelty and you all are making it hard to do. Because we want cruelty to be abundant and easily available. While kindness becomes rarer and rarer and more valuable. It's been so long since we have had so many people feel small and powerless and completely limited and governed by rule of law. All we want is unchecked unlimited power. All we need is to completely check and limit you. Is that so much to ask?

Please stop this open software insanity and give acceptable offerings to a CEO near you.

amen :)

for real tho. Let the capitalism flow. Greed is good (im serious). You cant run an economy on open source.

[superppl]

Greed is not good. It's what makes smart people (read CEO's) stupid and that's one of the reasons why our economy is going downhill.
Commerce is good. You need a flow of cash to keep the economy going, just like how you need a flow of charged electrons to keep your computer running!
Open source may undermine previous business models, but it opens up new ones, and greed is what is keeping our economy from adopting these new profitable models.


Oh yeah back on topic... I have no idea who I would donate it to. :/ I would probably end up giving it to charity and back to God. :)

[DanL]

I would probably end up giving it to charity and back to God. :)

Ideally, yes, but that's not within the hypothetical rules of the thread.
Some other projects I like:
OSS4 - supports the hardware mixer of my card, crystal clear audio
cpupowerd - custom userspace control of CPU clocks/voltage (like CrystalCPUID, but for Linux). Currently, it only supports K8 processors, but it would be nice to see it extended to newer AMD CPU's.

[L33F3R]

Greed is not good. It's what makes smart people (read CEO's) stupid and that's one of the reasons why our economy is going downhill.
Commerce is good. You need a flow of cash to keep the economy going, just like how you need a flow of charged electrons to keep your computer running!
Open source may undermine previous business models, but it opens up new ones, and greed is what is keeping our economy from adopting these new profitable models.


Oh yeah back on topic... I have no idea who I would donate it to. :/ I would probably end up giving it to charity and back to God. :)

lol good call on giving it back to god. someone wants to go to heaven :D

btw. greed didn't make the businessman stupid.... greed made the businessman a business. That business sold its goods on the open market and people bought them making him rich. Greed is not an infection its a side effect of being human :).

I do however retract to say you cant run an economy on open source which I think has been misinterpreted. You cant run an economy on any single sector alone, we would all die!! IBM, Sun (oracle), Redhat, Lovell have all shown that open source is profitable and they employ a large number of people.

L33F3R will be deciding on a project short time :)

[Hephasteus]

Open source can be monetized adequately and fairly I believe. It might be hard to do but I think it can be done. I was being very facetious. I don't need a savior or king or ceo or titan or whatever you want to call our overlords these days. High power differentials aren't sustainable be it oil or bullcrap. The only abundances you end up with from the approaches we have tried are debt and misery and constantly trying to marginalize and diminish everyone.

[Hephasteus]

lol good call on giving it back to god. someone wants to go to heaven :D


Let's see. You can't get into heaven without being good and doing good works. Oh wait no. You can't get into heaven without god's grace. Truth is there is no heaven it's just a ponzi scheme. Never suck up to power. It rarely rewards and does alot of punishing.

[L33F3R]

Let's see. You can't get into heaven without being good and doing good works. Oh wait no. You can't get into heaven without god's grace. Truth is there is no heaven it's just a ponzi scheme.

This isn't the thread nor message board to debate faith.

[superppl]

I have to change my answer, I know which project gets my money: ReactOS. :)

[MartjeB]

AMD.. or maybe Gnome.

[TotallyEpic]

Banshee Project probably.

[tmpdir]

Mplayer would be my choice

[kraftman]

Definitely KDE or X.

[saberbits]

Mplayer probably.