We buy all kinds of cheap stuff from China, and they're a big part of our trade deficit. I'm sure everyone hates this, but we need some kind of export to China. IP is one of the few things the US is good at anymore.
On 31 Mar 2006, at 20:08: > This isn't about *technical* support, I just wanted to tell Matthew > thanks > for working on this project. The US government is really scaring > me and > I'm glad someone's working on this. You're doing a great job man. > > One question I have is that the paypal balance on the home page > usually > says something like a few hundred $, and I was wondering if it's > actually > generating the required $2300 per month, or if it's falling short. > I've > had a monthly donation set up for quite a while now, and I just > want to > make sure everything is going well financially for the project.
We have been fortunate enough to generate just about enough to pay for Matthew for the past few years, but donations have been tailing off as we haven't put out any new releases in quite a while due to our work on 0.7, and the financial situation is actually quite precarious just now.
Our hope is that with the 0.7 alpha release we will get some donations, but if anyone can contribute, now would really be the time (as there can be no guarantee that the 0.7 alpha release will generate the level of publicity we have seen for previous releases).
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We buy all kinds of cheap stuff from China, and they're a big part of our trade deficit. I'm sure everyone hates this, but we need some kind of export to China. IP is one of the few things the US is good at anymore.
It'd suck if someone stole the thing...
On 31 Mar 2006, at 20:08:
> This isn't about *technical* support, I just wanted to tell Matthew
> thanks
> for working on this project. The US government is really scaring
> me and
> I'm glad someone's working on this. You're doing a great job man.
>
> One question I have is that the paypal balance on the home page
> usually
> says something like a few hundred $, and I was wondering if it's
> actually
> generating the required $2300 per month, or if it's falling short.
> I've
> had a monthly donation set up for quite a while now, and I just
> want to
> make sure everything is going well financially for the project.
We have been fortunate enough to generate just about enough to pay
for Matthew for the past few years, but donations have been tailing
off as we haven't put out any new releases in quite a while due to
our work on 0.7, and the financial situation is actually quite
precarious just now.
Our hope is that with the 0.7 alpha release we will get some
donations, but if anyone can contribute, now would really be the time
(as there can be no guarantee that the 0.7 alpha release will
generate the level of publicity we have seen for previous releases).
Ian.
I can't add one of these new tags, but someone really needs to tag this article "jokebait"