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Rabbid
wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 17:42
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Isn't it possible to fix typos in ideas? I mispelled possible.
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deadowl
wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 17:47
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Actually: https://shop.canonical.com/
I'm not sure how well straight-up donations would fly because I'm pretty sure Canonical isn't a non-profit. However, they do sell stuff that you can buy and it would probably make them money while simultaneously promoting them (ex. you wear an Ubuntu t-shirt around and people will be exposed to the brand).
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Rabbid
wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 17:48
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Yes, but making an option inside the Ubuntu OS would have been great.
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Rabbid
wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 17:49
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Perhaps creating a system for donations to specific projects would be possible too.
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While donating to Ubuntu itself is great (I've done it myself), I believe money is better spend on bounties - the individual components that make up Ubuntu and could use improvement.
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we should also be able to PAY to get very specific brainstorm ideas implemented, like a bounty, (not broad ones like fix wireless but specific issues), like fix nautilus search so it doesn't always search from home when in spatial mode.
Gr8 Idea.
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Rabbid
wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 19:40
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Paying bounties for brainstorm ideas seems like a great idea.
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tomatz
wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 19:40
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Great idea but not very secure dont you think? A great target for any hacker wanting to make a quick buk off a noob.
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gnuway
wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 19:57
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Love the bounty idea!
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hahaha! Shuttleworth works for food! :))))
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Will work for sex right here.
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Actually, a donation spot would be a great idea but with an added twist.
Canonical tosses the money into an account and bounties can be assigned a price using money in the account. If someone (or some team) implements the idea, they get the cash.
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Quote, Rabbid:
> Yes, but making an option inside the Ubuntu OS would have been great.
I completely disagree, sorry. You should be able to go through the entire lifespan of an Ubuntu release without ever having to pay, being asked to pay, or even seeing the option to pay. If you're really concerned about donating to the project, you can do that already, there really is no need whatsoever to include it in the default installation. I doubt it would lead to a significant increase in donations either.
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Estesark, I just cannot leave your phrase "...without ever having to pay, being asked to pay, or even seeing the option to pay" unanswered. I strongly disagree.
Involvement in the open source and free software movement as either a developer or a user never meant it is a taboo to consider some kind of compensation of financial support for a project.
I am very glad when I see paypal buttons on the web pages of developers. It's a clean, honest and transparent contract: 'if you like this work and really want to help me improve it, please be so kind as to buying me a beer'.
I believe donations strengthen the human relationship between developers and users (unlike the purely monetary producer-customer relation), raise the status of software as a service to society rather than a mere marketable product, and above all, donations educate us to not forget rewarding good work when we see it.
Hiding the possibility of donations is the best way to generate a new generation of brats. Just think of kids: would you forbid them to say "thank you" when they get gifts or money? Or would you *require* them to do it?
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Craig73
wrote on the 30 Jul 08 at 02:40
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What I find amusing about the Linux community is people respond to an idea with - oh it's right here (here's a link)
Perhaps the idea should be taken as --- it's not to obvious where one goes to donate money.
Personally I had to search for it as I assumed it had to be possible... but like everything - shouldn't it be more obvious? [Welcome to Ubuntu - here is where you can contribute to the community... by helping or cash]
Free as in Freedom, not Freeloader
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--Idea Extension--
I have just checked, http://www.ubuntu.com/community/donations page, although PayPal is great, I would not like to open a PayPal account or go through the hassle.
Why not just add a simple Credit Card processing page. So, I can easily donate money with my credit card number and amount.
If you like you can send me an email and 'Thank You!' post-card with my name, ubuntu logo etc... Marketing could take care of the design :)
In a commercial environment we do that as 'social-responsibility' projects for Forests, Education, Books etc...
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Vadim P.
wrote on the 30 Jul 08 at 19:03
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I believe Paypal works with credit cards too without a Paypal account
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LiH2.com
wrote on the 30 Jul 08 at 20:18
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Hi Rabbid - cool ideas !!!
Your donate idea's is totally great !!!
sry I can only vote once for it :)
I really miss that my self -
since I wantet to buy a HP dv7-1070 and use ubuntu on it,
even it comes with vista.
And I would like to donate to the project / people who will
make the hardware on that computer work 100% on ubuntu 8.04
So your donate idea's most be a real option, I hope the
ubuntu people will make it happend !
Or els we most donate for this to happened :)
The donate can be a softeware addon you can install,
if you like ?!
So when your on the www.ubuntu.com donate page you can have the option to install the ubuntu donate softeware :)
And the donate software can have the option to donate for a project or add a subject to donate for ?!
Or maybe the software ain't needed, you can have those option on the www.ubuntu.com donate page
Maybe we can have both option ?!
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