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Re: Request free live CD

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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?

That's easy: time is much more effective than money in this
context.

If you answer a question on this mailing list, it is recorded
and can be searched; hundreds or thousands of people can be
helped.

If you fix a bug in a major package, millions of people will be
helped.

If you donate the money that you make in an hour to postage and
media for DVDs or USB sticks, somewhere between a fraction of a
person and a couple of hundred will be helped -- for an average
US income, about 2 USB sticks.

Money is great, but it is needed in business-sized quantities.
Any individual person with skills makes the community better off by
answering questions and fixing bugs than they would by donating
the equivalent time in money.

As a corollary, if you can spend a couple of hours convincing a
business that runs Debian to donate some money, that's probably
an excellent use of your time.

-dsr-

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  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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