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Bruce Perens calls for donations

[Posted October 25, 2002 by ris]

Bruce Perens has sent out a personal message asking for financial support of his ongoing work to defend and promote free software.

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Berkeley's a pretty expensive place to live

Posted Oct 25, 2002 17:22 UTC (Fri) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

... if you are trying to live off of other people's donated money. There are plenty of cheaper places to live where money goes a lot farther.

Berkeley's a pretty expensive place to live

Posted Oct 25, 2002 17:41 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

I do have a consulting and book business that pay for living in Berkeley. The problem is doing half-time Free Software activism on top of the consulting and book business. It's not adding up for the upcoming year, although hopefully it will when I develop my business further. But don't consider just me - consider all of the free software activism that we should we working on and can't afford. My intent is to pay for more than one evangelist.

Bruce

Bruce Perens calls for donations

Posted Oct 25, 2002 19:26 UTC (Fri) by affero (guest, #4182) [Link]

Also check out Affero to get donations to the causes you care about like LWN

EFF?

Posted Oct 26, 2002 0:40 UTC (Sat) by andrel (guest, #5166) [Link]

Bruce,

Is the EFF involved in any of these issues? Seems like they'd be a good group to work with.

--Andre

EFF?

Posted Oct 26, 2002 6:07 UTC (Sat) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

Yes, EFF is. Give them money too, please! But note that EFF, as a 501(c)3 non-profit, is actually not allowed to devote a substantial part of its resources to influencing legislature! That's why the organization I'm starting is not a 501(c)3, it's a 501(c)6. See http://techp.org/Articles/FAQ.html for more about this.

Bruce

EFF?

Posted Oct 26, 2002 15:40 UTC (Sat) by droopycom (guest, #7070) [Link]

oh... this is just for US then... because bribing politican is illegal in most countries... :)

EFF?

Posted Oct 27, 2002 22:02 UTC (Sun) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

Let's not go there.

Bruce: Please make other payment options available!

Posted Oct 28, 2002 8:23 UTC (Mon) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link]

I would like to subscribe, but I refuse to do business with Paypal - I simply don't trust them, sorry.