Donations

[Robert J. Hansen]

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Matthias Kirschner wrote:
> But considering your motivation ("grateful [... to] have a Free Software
> implementation of the OpenPGP protocol.") you donated your money to the
> "wrong" address. IMHO you should have donated to GnuPG directly, give it
> to Werner as one of the main developers or to g10code

I think you should think your advocacy.  Telling someone who's just made
a charitable donation "... well, you really should've sent it somewhere
else!" is churlish and rude.  However, that said:

Christmas is a time for donating to charities, not businesses.  Making
charitable contributions to g10 Code makes about as much sense to me as
donating to DaimlerChrysler.  The FSF, on the other hand, is a
charitable organization and it makes as much sense to donate to them as
it does to, say, Oxfam or the World Wildlife Fund.

I suspect essentially everyone in the GnuPG community understands my
position, and feels that contributing to the FSF is an excellent way to
show my gratitude for the work of the GnuPG developers and maintainers.

If I'm wrong, I invite people to say so, so that I may be corrected.  If
I'm right, I invite people to say so, so that you may be corrected.


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