From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA09362 for caml-red; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 23:04:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA19425 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:56:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from romeo.apsystems.it ([213.82.20.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f17AuRH02527; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:56:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex (ppp-24.dial2.planet.it [212.110.171.24]) by romeo.apsystems.it with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 1H1BPF9J; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:55:44 -0000 Message-ID: <000201c090f4$0f5013a0$18ab6ed4@alex> From: "Alex Baretta" To: , "Ocaml Mailing List" Subject: R: Consortium Caml Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:55:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Please excuse the inconsistent quoting scheme (MS's fault, not mine!). I am an Ocaml enthusiast and wish to support the consortium. Notwithstanding this, I could hardly imagine spending 2kE of my _personal_ money on Ocaml. As I do not work for a software company (yet) I have no sponsor which I might convince to join the consortium. I would like to support the Consortium with a relatively small sum: the equivalent of the price of the licence for a commercial development environment such as MS-VisualBasic (deprecated ;-). Why not allow individuals to join for about 50E per annum. No one says such individuals should have as much weight as the 2kE members, but yet they would contribute to the funding of project and to the diffusion of the language. Do consider this proposal. Yours, Alex -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Michel Mauny A: Joshua D. Guttman Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Data: venerd́ 2 febbraio 2001 16.28 Oggetto: Re: Consortium Caml ... Well, we had to choose an amount for the first option, and I don't know wether it's easier to have 100 members giving each 500 Euros or to have 25 giving each 2 KEuros (or even less giving even more :-). I chose the latter, and only the experience will tell if it works this way or not. I hope my arguments can be convincing. Everyone is welcome to improve them in such a way that we can soon have, in this list, a thread entitled "convincing management to switch to Ocaml", with positive answers. -- Michel