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.IX Title "FSF-FUNDING 7"
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.TH FSF-FUNDING 7 "2007-10-07" "gcc-4.2.2" "GNU"
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.SH "NAME"
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fsf\-funding \- Funding Free Software
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
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.Sh "Funding Free Software"
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.IX Subsection "Funding Free Software"
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If you want to have more free software a few years from now, it makes
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sense for you to help encourage people to contribute funds for its
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development.  The most effective approach known is to encourage
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commercial redistributors to donate.
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Users of free software systems can boost the pace of development by
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encouraging for-a-fee distributors to donate part of their selling price
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to free software developers\-\-\-the Free Software Foundation, and others.
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The way to convince distributors to do this is to demand it and expect
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it from them.  So when you compare distributors, judge them partly by
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how much they give to free software development.  Show distributors
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they must compete to be the one who gives the most.
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To make this approach work, you must insist on numbers that you can
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compare, such as, \*(L"We will donate ten dollars to the Frobnitz project
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for each disk sold.\*(R"  Don't be satisfied with a vague promise, such as
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\&\*(L"A portion of the profits are donated,\*(R" since it doesn't give a basis
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for comparison.
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.PP
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Even a precise fraction \*(L"of the profits from this disk\*(R" is not very
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meaningful, since creative accounting and unrelated business decisions
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can greatly alter what fraction of the sales price counts as profit.
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If the price you pay is \f(CW$50\fR, ten percent of the profit is probably
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less than a dollar; it might be a few cents, or nothing at all.
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Some redistributors do development work themselves.  This is useful too;
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but to keep everyone honest, you need to inquire how much they do, and
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what kind.  Some kinds of development make much more long-term
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difference than others.  For example, maintaining a separate version of
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a program contributes very little; maintaining the standard version of a
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program for the whole community contributes much.  Easy new ports
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contribute little, since someone else would surely do them; difficult
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ports such as adding a new \s-1CPU\s0 to the \s-1GNU\s0 Compiler Collection contribute more;
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major new features or packages contribute the most.
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By establishing the idea that supporting further development is \*(L"the
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proper thing to do\*(R" when distributing free software for a fee, we can
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assure a steady flow of resources into making more free software.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\&\fIgpl\fR\|(7), \fIgfdl\fR\|(7).
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.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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Copyright (c) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Verbatim copying and redistribution of this section is permitted
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without royalty; alteration is not permitted.

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