2019-08-04 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Updating grasehotspot

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From: Tim <ti***8@gmail.com>
Message Hash: 96e1eb8773b038243b38812f91f32e97bc8823bcf6b160df2148bf65c2a8e042
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Reply To: <fafd1f76-8194-e1c8-1353-5961228c5c26@gmail.com>
UTC Datetime: 2019-08-04 14:07:18 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:07:18 +1000

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Hi Guys

At 2 days a month ($400/month) I expect I can have functional code out by
late January. If we're going down this path, I'll send the donors a list of
"features" so they can prioritise what is needed for them first. e.g. we
can leave off the reports until everything else has been upgraded etc etc.

I won't however have a crippleware product. Not everyone in the community
is in a position to donate financially, and over the years there have been
many contributions in other ways. Please also remember that it's licensed
under the GPL license, which requires the source code to be provided to
anyone who it is distributed to, and that they have all the rights under
the GPL license, including modifying it and redistributing it under that
same GPL license. This effectively makes it impossible to produce a
crippleware product.

If any donors are located in Australia and want to direct deposit into a
bank account instead of using Stripe, they can contact me off list.

I look forward to being able to take some time off my day job and actually
focus on bring the Grase Hotspot into the modern software age.

Regards

Tim

On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 12:08, Charles Chambers <cc***2@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have no problem with this idea, and I can start on August 6.
>
> If the community as a whole doesn't want to participate, then *I* think a
> crippleware feature is appropriate for unlicensed hotspot operators.
>
> I'm not real keen on funding an upgrade for the entire community.
>
> Charlie
>
> ========
> On 8/1/19 11:48 PM, 'christopher' via Grase Hotspot wrote:
>
> Hello Tim,
>
> As it seems that there may well be another person, other than your regular
> donor who seems to be willing to make a contribution, I am asking you, if
> you had donations that covered 2 full days per month, how long would it
> take you to actually be able to finish your own internal code upgrades to
> the point of being able to upgrade to the 18.x version of Ubuntu?  What I
> am in essence asking, is, with two days of payment per month, how many
> months would it take you to reach that goal?
>
> I am seriously looking at giving $200 au per month, and if one or more
> others could come up with the second day, that would give everyone,
> including yourself a better idea.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher.
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