Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 12/29/24 11:45 AM, pH wrote:

On 2024-12-29, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

On 12/28/24 6:05 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-12-27 18:04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:57:55 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
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Well, I appreciate that I can get gratis a piece of software that is
that good.

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If you think Free Software could be better, and you would rather not give
money to a proprietary company, why not contribute some of that money to
the development of the Free Software and help make it better?

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Especially since projects like KDE and LibreOffice really need it.

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Note that money is not the only way to contribute. Even by using the
software you contribute,

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    Well ... "using" doesn't buy much coffee ....
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    The prob is the usual WAYS of donating - they do not
    seem remotely secure these days. No, I'm not gonna
    put my card number into some, MAYbe legit, website.
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    A mail address you can send a money-order or something
    to would feel much better.

 Huzzah for checks and the like.  It can be challenging to find an address to
send it to, as I've found out for a project called "Allstar" for HAM radio.

   At least a physical address ! Best to send some
   kind of 'money-order' or equiv ... you might lose
   THAT much money to fraud but at least they won't
   get an account routing-number or anything !
   Yea, net-pay IS easy ... but these days it's also
   too easy to SCAM. Hard to trust a Chase-Manhattan
   site now, much less some obscure developer cadre
   in Germany or wherever.
   And no, I don't even know how to buy a BitCoin ...
   and those are doomed to CRASH hard pretty soon
   anyway.