Carlo Capocasa wrote: This is exactly what I believe, and this is the way I choosed to take for my own music. If you want to listen to my music without paying, this is fine with me. Actually, I'm honoured that you like my music and pleased to know you're listening to it. But if you really appreciate it, you'll care for me, and maybe eventually make a donation. I know this topic is subjective and I don't want to start another flamewar, but I wouldn't like to receive money from people just because that is the only way they can obtain my material. Obviously this approach doesn't work if you plan to buy a Ferrari with the money earned from your artistic career, since people will stop making donations when they'll see you wearing Dolce & Gabbana. But I'm not interested in such lifestyle anyway. In fact - feeling guilty of living in a society that kills innocent people on my behalf to take their gas - I've decided to sell my Punto and not to buy another car. p.s. For those who didn't get it, my previous post was meant to show one of the many contradictions that arise when you're stuck with an old mindset. c. -- www.cesaremarilungo.com

Exactly what I've been thinking about. I also think we need a way to reward people who are making libraries, compilers, kernel patches, the kernel itself as you mention... And then reward them FIRST. A tool could be written to analyse the computer's contents, and then make a list of intelligent default percentages for a given donation. Which then could be customized on a scale of 'use every day' and 'installed just for testing'. Library donations would be adjusted accordingly. This tool would have to actually scan for software and run independantly of packaging systems. It could be coupled with this site: http://donorge.org/ Heh :) Thanks for adding to the mental effort. Carlo