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134 .IX Title "FSF-FUNDING 7"
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135 .TH FSF-FUNDING 7 "2009-04-21" "gcc-4.4.0" "GNU"
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141 fsf\-funding \- Funding Free Software
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144 .Sh "Funding Free Software"
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145 .IX Subsection "Funding Free Software"
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146 If you want to have more free software a few years from now, it makes
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147 sense for you to help encourage people to contribute funds for its
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148 development. The most effective approach known is to encourage
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149 commercial redistributors to donate.
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151 Users of free software systems can boost the pace of development by
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153 to free software developers\-\-\-the Free Software Foundation, and others.
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156 it from them. So when you compare distributors, judge them partly by
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157 how much they give to free software development. Show distributors
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158 they must compete to be the one who gives the most.
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160 To make this approach work, you must insist on numbers that you can
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161 compare, such as, \*(L"We will donate ten dollars to the Frobnitz project
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162 for each disk sold.\*(R" Don't be satisfied with a vague promise, such as
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166 Even a precise fraction \*(L"of the profits from this disk\*(R" is not very
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167 meaningful, since creative accounting and unrelated business decisions
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168 can greatly alter what fraction of the sales price counts as profit.
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169 If the price you pay is \f(CW$50\fR, ten percent of the profit is probably
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170 less than a dollar; it might be a few cents, or nothing at all.
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171 .PP
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172 Some redistributors do development work themselves. This is useful too;
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173 but to keep everyone honest, you need to inquire how much they do, and
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174 what kind. Some kinds of development make much more long-term
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175 difference than others. For example, maintaining a separate version of
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176 a program contributes very little; maintaining the standard version of a
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177 program for the whole community contributes much. Easy new ports
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178 contribute little, since someone else would surely do them; difficult
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179 ports such as adding a new \s-1CPU\s0 to the \s-1GNU\s0 Compiler Collection contribute more;
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180 major new features or packages contribute the most.
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181 .PP
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182 By establishing the idea that supporting further development is \*(L"the
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183 proper thing to do\*(R" when distributing free software for a fee, we can
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184 assure a steady flow of resources into making more free software.
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185 .SH "SEE ALSO"
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186 .IX Header "SEE ALSO"
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187 \&\fIgpl\fR\|(7), \fIgfdl\fR\|(7).
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188 .SH "COPYRIGHT"
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189 .IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
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190 Copyright (c) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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191 Verbatim copying and redistribution of this section is permitted
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192 without royalty; alteration is not permitted.
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