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+.\" ========================================================================
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+.IX Title "FSF-FUNDING 7"
+.TH FSF-FUNDING 7 "2009-04-21" "gcc-4.4.0" "GNU"
+.\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
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+.SH "NAME"
+fsf\-funding \- Funding Free Software
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
+.Sh "Funding Free Software"
+.IX Subsection "Funding Free Software"
+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.
+.PP
+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.
+.PP
+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.
+.PP
+To make this approach work, you must insist on numbers that you can
+compare, such as, \*(L"We will donate ten dollars to the Frobnitz project
+for each disk sold.\*(R"  Don't be satisfied with a vague promise, such as
+\&\*(L"A portion of the profits are donated,\*(R" since it doesn't give a basis
+for comparison.
+.PP
+Even a precise fraction \*(L"of the profits from this disk\*(R" 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 \f(CW$50\fR, ten percent of the profit is probably
+less than a dollar; it might be a few cents, or nothing at all.
+.PP
+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 \s-1CPU\s0 to the \s-1GNU\s0 Compiler Collection contribute more;
+major new features or packages contribute the most.
+.PP
+By establishing the idea that supporting further development is \*(L"the
+proper thing to do\*(R" when distributing free software for a fee, we can
+assure a steady flow of resources into making more free software.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
+\&\fIgpl\fR\|(7), \fIgfdl\fR\|(7).
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
+Copyright (c) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Verbatim copying and redistribution of this section is permitted
+without royalty; alteration is not permitted.