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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!

by SimonMartin :: Rate this Message:

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Simon,

I'm going to drop back into lurk-mode in a sec... :-)

On 9 Jun 2009, at 23:16, simon haywood wrote:
>
> There are some corporate bodies who use SquirrelMail to make money  
> for themselves. I know of at least two (and I'm sure there're more)  
> ISPs who use SquirrelMail as the webmail client for their  
> customers. It's perhaps not unreasonable for those corporate bodies  
> to pay for the privilege.

Please let's not go there.

Open Source is Open Source is free. Don't compromise.

By all means *ask* the ISPs for a contribution but make it voluntary.

How about asking developers to take on paid customisation work and  
donate half of the proceeds to the project? This may get *them* more  
work and raise money in the process...?

Simon

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