All these licenses and business models

[David]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 16:16, DeBug wrote:
> D> This will probablly work if we
> D> ALLOW THEM TO CHOOSE WHO WILL GET the money they pay
> If you still don't understand consider the following scheme
> Free Software Foundation collects a customer-membership payments and
> (dont spend and forget) register it in the database. The money
> can be later (the next day or several years after) paid to
> one of the free software development groups when that paticular
> customer decides to buy that paticular product. If he has not enough
> money in his customer-membership payments account he can pay some
> extra payments. These scheme allows developers to compete on
> customer-membership payments.
> 
> Note: when government says copyrights help to promote usefull arts it
> should answer how much ? The total yearly amount of money for these
> purposes should be defined and the artists should compete on this
> amount and not on the infinite one. It could be defined as Xpercents of
> total nation incomes taxing each individual accordinglly ( Xpercents
> of his incomes).
> further-developing the idea we come to this:
> 
>         HealthCare        Military/Police   Education     UseFull Arts
>                  \                \             /             /
>                   \                \           |             /
>              U%%   \           V%%  \          | Y%%        /  X%%
>                     \                |         |           /
>                      \               |         |          /
>                        ALLOW THEM TO CHOOSE WHO WILL GET
>                        
> 
> This is where i think IT specialists should help
> --
> Best regards,
>  DeBug                            mailto:debug at centras.lt
> --
> 
I follow you now, I got caught up in the tax word there for a while.
This idea looks very interesting and could perhaps be developed further.
I will print this out and give more thought. Oh I really like lateral
thinkers.

Regards 
David

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