Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL
by omouse on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @08:55AM
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Not everybody who uses Mongrel is a multimillion-dollar company.
Yet they can afford to hire employees who know how to deploy Mongrel and Rails. Programmers and sys-admins aren't cheap, neither are executives, marketers, salespeople, etc. Even if you're running a tiny Web startup, you should be able to afford small donations.
edit: You can treat the donation as a "license fee" if that makes the accounting easier to deal with
Yet they can afford to hire employees who know how to deploy Mongrel and Rails. Programmers and sys-admins aren't cheap, neither are executives, marketers, salespeople, etc. Even if you're running a tiny Web startup, you should be able to afford small donations.
edit: You can treat the donation as a "license fee" if that makes the accounting easier to deal with