Funding - Specifically identifying allocations

[Robert A. Macy]

LOL!  You can check if/who they bribe by looking because it
can be deducted as a "legitmate" business expense and then
must be reported in the annual statements.  
  

However, I ABSOLUTELY would not support funding based upon
specific allocations.  You have no idea the amount of
effort it takes to track such contributions.  

Check with any of your local charitable organizations and
they will concur that they actually dread getting
"allocated" funding.  They usually accept it, because they
need it, but they still dread all the extra effort
involved.  

Better to have the organization deem where and how the
expenditures in general are made.  And if you don't like
where that is occurring jump in and change them/people.

Anyway, my two cents...

             - Robert -


On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:37:45 -0400 (EDT)
 Andy Adler <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Javier Arantegui wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > El Lunes, 26 de Septiembre de 2005 23:11, John W. Eaton
> escribió:
> > > For everyone
> > > else, there's always
> http:/www.octave.org/funding.html!
> >
> > There is one thing that prevents me to fund a free
> software project as Octave.
> > There is no way to know how the money will be spent.
> I'd like to know if my
> > money will be to pay bandwidth, new servers, an student
> to write some code or
> > documentation, pizzas,... Could this be better
> explained in the funding
> > webpage?
> 
> This is one thing that stops me from paying for software
> from a non-free
> company such as Microsoft. There is no way to know how
> the money will
> be spent. I'd like to know if my money will pay to bribe
> officials,
> to steal technical secrets from competitors,
> intimidation, ...
> Perhaps Microsoft could explain this better on their
> webpage?
> 
> NOTE: This is meant to be a joke. I hope I don't offend.
> 
> --
> Andy Adler <address@hidden> 1(613)562-5800x6218
> 



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