Re: street music funding and http e-money

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From: Malcolm McMahon
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00

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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:05:25 GMT, phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut) wrote:

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>So introducing e-money into HTTP might be the single most important boost
>that one can give to free software funding.  It wouldn't make the Market
>more favorable to OpenSource, but it would remove the dependency on
>sponsoring and allow the street music funding approach (which is also not a
>capitalist approach) to have a chance of working.

But you're still very much asking people to buy a pig in a poke. And
what's to stop anyone paying for one copy and then selling on ten
million at a lower price?

It clear e-cash would considerably help the shareware market, a major
obstacle is the cost of currency conversion and transfer and getting
yourself a credit card merchant account.

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From: malcolm@pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm McMahon)
Subject: Re: street music funding and http e-money
Date: 1998/10/12
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