[MPlayer-dev-eng] 2005.07.11, Monday :: software patent directive rejected

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:37:31PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:05:00AM -0400, Daniel Grossman wrote:
> > 
> > P.S. Please consider adding a PayPal or other form of monetary donation 
> > link to your site; I would certainly contribute!
> 
> Historically monetary donations have been a sore subject, since
> there's no fair way to evenly divide or allocate them to developers
> and no one agrees on what to do with money. Instead why not browse the
> donations page and donate some hardware or other needed items to one
> of the developers? That way you can contribute directly to whatever
> parts of MPlayer you most want to see enhanced.

We already collected some monetary donations on LinuxTag.  We could use
that money for things like buying a new server or disk replacements or
covering booth costs at events like LinuxTag.  Money would not have to
go to an individual developer but could go to the project as a whole.

Diego