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Re: Request free live CD

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On 2022-02-10 21:25, Celejar wrote:
> I do understand and agree with this, but my point was that we (at least
> the more helpful of us) on this list are perfectly willing to freely
> give of our time to help others, so why would we (at least those of us
> fortunate enough to have disposable income to spare) not be willing to
> give of our money as well to help others who need it?

This does bring up two related points:

1. When you give time to help someone else it generally helps you too.

In the sense that if you help out on this mailing list, trying to figure 
out how to help solve other people's problems, you learn about solutions 
that can be helpful to you as well. And you learn more about how systems 
work in general.

If you maintain a package or write free software, it's generally 
packages or software that you yourself would find useful.

When it comes to money, it often does not help you. Burning a live CD 
and mailing it to someone else, involves both time and money but doesn't 
help you.

2. In this specific scenario of live CD, there's an element of the 
saying, give someone a fish and you feed them for a day, teach them how 
to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.

So you send this CD and they run or install the current version of the 
OS. Later on their system breaks down or they get a new one, or they 
want the next version of the OS, and what do they do then?

Bijan

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Request free live CD Dozzyjean Dozie <info.dozzyjeandozie@gmail.com> - 2022-02-10 15:30 +0100
  Re: Request free live CD <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-10 16:50 +0100
    Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 02:10 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2022-02-11 02:30 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> - 2022-02-11 03:00 +0100
        Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 03:30 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-02-11 15:20 +0100
            Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 15:30 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> - 2022-02-12 04:50 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-11 07:30 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-11 09:00 +0100
        Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 14:50 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-11 20:40 +0100
            Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 20:50 +0100
              Re: Request free live CD Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2022-02-11 21:10 +0100
              Re: Request free live CD "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-11 22:20 +0100
              Re: Request free live CD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-02-12 01:20 +0100
                Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-14 15:10 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-12 14:10 +0100
        Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-14 22:50 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-13 13:40 +0100
        Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-14 16:10 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-02-14 17:10 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-14 17:30 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2022-02-14 17:30 +0100

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