From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/6558 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Spencer Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Funding musl development via Patreon Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:55:02 +0100 Message-ID: <546C68F6.7000708@barfooze.de> References: <20141118204433.GA32101@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20141119095105.GH10829@port70.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416390998 22511 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 09:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:56:38 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-6571-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Nov 19 10:56:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr1zz-000167-HQ for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:56:31 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 23767 invoked by uid 550); 19 Nov 2014 09:56:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 23753 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2014 09:56:30 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: <20141119095105.GH10829@port70.net> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:6558 Archived-At: Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > * Rich Felker [2014-11-18 15:44:33 -0500]: >> So if you're using musl and want to help musl keep getting better, >> please consider becoming a sponsor. The average donation through the >> Patreon platform is $5-$10/month, but even a dollar shows you care, >> and lots of little donations add up. >> > > i think the transaction cost is important to note: [...] > (i'd not recommend sending $1 over such a system: for credit card > transfer the overhead is $0.37 as far as i can see not counting > the conversion costs when sending from outside the us and the > patreon->dalias transaction (which hopefully will have amortized > costs) and i would not recommend paypal for reliability reasons.. > the micro payment problem is not solved yet) the solution is called bitcoin