[Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

[Mike Henry]

https://liberapay.com/ is a great platform for what you propose, Luke
should make an account.

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 3:01 AM,  <ronwirring at safe-mail.net> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
> Apparently from: arm-netbook-bounces at lists.phcomp.co.uk
> To: Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk>
> Subject: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing
> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 09:59:04 +0000
>
> On the current pc card situation I have some remarks.
> Primarily directed at other pc card supporters.
> I got the pc card after making some assessments.
> Did I believe it was a scam, no. Did I believe the pc card
> had a chance of getting made, yes. Did I believe
> the pc card enterprise could shipwreck, yes. If so I
> decided lkcl would not hear a word for it from me.
> Of course I only made such decision because to
> me the pc card's price is negligible.
> If beneficial to lkcl, he can erase me from the
> shipping list and no refund. I ask others to do the same.
> I think lkcl has done more than one can expect. He
> likely has gathered experiences and
> knowledge about libre hardware, he
> can use moving forward.
> If lkcl can contribute to the riscv development,
> he rather should do that, than potter
> on an arm cpu, none of us like.
> What I want to avoid is, that lkcl on
> economic reasons gets discouraged and jammed.
>
> I know the following is not achievable. I say it anyway.
> One option is, lkcl sets a monthly required amount of
> money for the next 6 months. I am prepared to pay
> lkcl 5usd a month. But only if I know lkcl gets the
> required sum every month. 5Usd is cheap, I
> know. If you want to pay more do it.
>
> To me this matter is another prove of libre software
> people not being streamlined. Libre software
> people are up against companies like intel and
> amd. Libre software people cannot expect to
> achieve results if the matter is not better organized.
> Among libre software people there should be a
> system of fellowships enabling persons to work
> on free software. No it does not have to
> be lkcl. But such system should be created.
> How should it be founded?
>
>
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