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            "text": "# FSF-FUNDING(7) (man)\n\n**Summary:** fsf-funding - Funding Free Software\n\n## See Also\n\n- gpl(7)\n- gfdl(7)\n\n## Section Outline\n\n- **NAME** (2 lines)\n- **DESCRIPTION** (1 lines) — 1 subsections\n  - Funding Free Software (34 lines)\n- **SEE ALSO** (2 lines)\n- **COPYRIGHT** (6 lines)\n\n## Full Content\n\n### NAME\n\nfsf-funding - Funding Free Software\n\n### DESCRIPTION\n\n#### Funding Free Software\n\nIf you want to have more free software a few years from now, it makes sense for you to help\nencourage people to contribute funds for its development.  The most effective approach known\nis to encourage commercial redistributors to donate.\n\nUsers of free software systems can boost the pace of development by encouraging for-a-fee\ndistributors to donate part of their selling price to free software developers---the Free\nSoftware Foundation, and others.\n\nThe way to convince distributors to do this is to demand it and expect it from them.  So when\nyou compare distributors, judge them partly by how much they give to free software develop‐\nment.  Show distributors they must compete to be the one who gives the most.\n\nTo make this approach work, you must insist on numbers that you can compare, such as, ``We\nwill donate ten dollars to the Frobnitz project for each disk sold.''  Don't be satisfied\nwith a vague promise, such as ``A portion of the profits are donated,'' since it doesn't give\na basis for comparison.\n\nEven a precise fraction ``of the profits from this disk'' is not very meaningful, since cre‐\native accounting and unrelated business decisions can greatly alter what fraction of the\nsales price counts as profit.  If the price you pay is $50, ten percent of the profit is\nprobably less than a dollar; it might be a few cents, or nothing at all.\n\nSome redistributors do development work themselves.  This is useful too; but to keep everyone\nhonest, you need to inquire how much they do, and what kind.  Some kinds of development make\nmuch more long-term difference than others.  For example, maintaining a separate version of a\nprogram contributes very little; maintaining the standard version of a program for the whole\ncommunity contributes much.  Easy new ports contribute little, since someone else would\nsurely do them; difficult ports such as adding a new CPU to the GNU Compiler Collection con‐\ntribute more; major new features or packages contribute the most.\n\nBy establishing the idea that supporting further development is ``the proper thing to do''\nwhen distributing free software for a fee, we can assure a steady flow of resources into mak‐\ning more free software.\n\n### SEE ALSO\n\ngpl(7), gfdl(7).\n\n### COPYRIGHT\n\nCopyright (c) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  Verbatim copying and redistribution of\nthis section is permitted without royalty; alteration is not permitted.\n\n\n\ngcc-3.3                                      2003-03-01                               FSF-FUNDING(7)\n\n"
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