Brian Bartholomew writes:
 > ...for the current varieties of compensation offered to free software
 > writers.  What other sorts of compensation can we come up with that
 > draw upon the strengths of the free software community?  100,000
 > people each donating a dollar?

Can you say "transaction costs"?  I knew you could.  Mr. Rogers knows
of no way to get a dollar from someone without spending a third of it
just on the money transfer process.

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