- Supporting BlackBox

From: CFB Software <"CFB>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:43:50 +0930

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Behalf Of Douglas G. Danforth
> Sent: Friday, 12 May 2006 2:31 AM
>
> I am also willing to commit $100/year to keep BlackBox alive.
>

What do you have in mind when you say 'keep BlackBox alive'?

  Maintain the mailing list? Make sure the website doesn't disappear?

or perhaps more than that:

  Keep the code up to date with bug fixes?

or perhaps more than that ????

I suspect that the accounting overheads alone would not make it worthwhile
to collect a relatively small number of payments of ~ $100. If I'm wrong
about that, one way to formalise it might be to have a scale of payments to
join / stay on the mailing list. e.g.

a) Unemployed / student - free
b) Individual / Personal user - $50 p.a.
c) Professional individual user - $100 p.a.
d) Corporate user $500+ p.a.

--
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
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