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Re: Debatable: Rootless Mode is an Important and Needed Feature
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:55:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: Debatable: Rootless Mode is an Important and Needed Feature
- References: <3D94B1AC.2060705@msu.edu> <15769.64377.285000.831461@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Robert,
My PayPal account is my email address. I have not setup a link to it
from my homepage yet, but I have that on my To-Do list. I have also not
proposed any prices for developing features that do not exist. However,
I would be more than happy to accept any contributions for the work that
I have already done... I could certainly use that money to keep my
development hardware up-to-date.
I have really been looking into upgrading my Linux machine that I use
for building Cygwin/XFree86 --- I need a new motherboard ($120), a new
chip ($200), a new 7200 RPM hard drive ($120), a bundle of RAM ($100),
and a semi-modern graphics card ($120). I'd also like to have a UPS
($100-$200) since uptimes of more than 7 days are becoming rather rare
at my apartment due to lightning storms and whatnot. It is a real pain
to try logging on to my Linux machine from school only to find out that
the storm during the night caused it to hang (we've had some power sags
that caused it to hang but that did not cause the machine to reboot or X
to stop displaying on the screen).
PayPal money would be perfect for this because I don't have to struggle
with myself as to whether spending this money is worth it or not --- the
PayPal money would only be spent for hardware, so there is nothing to
struggle about. Needless to say, the fiance stays out of the loop on
that money as well, so there is no chance of veto on any purchases :)
Hopefully that will do until I put a link on my page. Like I said, my
PayPal account is my email address.
Harold
Robert Mecklenburg wrote:
HLH> Could you please ask your pointy-haired bosses for a few thousand bucks
HLH> to pay one of your programmers to throw some time at a rootless mode?
HLH> Better yet, why don't you ask them if they would be willing to pay me to
HLH> do it?
Some time ago there was a suggestion to setup a paypal account to
receive donations for this purpose. I recall someone saying that an
announcement would be made when the account was available. What ever
happened to this? Personally, I'd be happy to contribute some hard
cash to whomever implements this feature.
Cheers,