Donating to GnuCash

[Derek Neighbors]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 23:19, John Steele Scott wrote:
> One thing I hate about most free software donation methods is that they use 
> PayPal, and I have heard so many bad stories about them. I know that I can 
> buy a US money order at Australia Post, but this kind of thing has large 
> transaction costs, so an electronic alternative would be good. I have seen 
> some developers use Amazon wishlists as a way for supporters to reward them, 
> but "cash is king", as they say.

I believe this list has talked a lot about such things and are using
source forges donation system, which if I remember correctly most
unfortunately uses PayPal.

> Another thing I would pay money for is some high quality documentation for 
> report writing, similar to the "gentle introduction to Emacs Lisp" which I 
> have mentioned once before on this list. That said, it would probably be 
> cheaper just to pay someone to write custom reports for me (although I really 
> would like to know how to do them myself).

You can read a great Intro to EMACS Lisp by Robert Chassell for free:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/

If you like it, do us a favor and buy a printed version from the Free
Software Foundation to help support Free Software. :)
http://www.gnupress.org/intro-elisp-2.5.html

> I know at one stage there was a company called Gnumatic based around GnuCash, 
> but I think that has disappeared, so maybe that shows the difficulty of 
> getting financial support for consumer-targetted software.

It is no longer in existence, but I am not certain it's demise is proof
positive that funding is not possible for a project like GNUCash.

-- 
Derek Neighbors
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derek at gnue.org

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