[Gambas-user] Gambas fundation ?

[Benoit Minisini]

Le Mardi 5 Août 2003 17:47, Henri Girard a écrit :
> I give my opinion as we are in a country of liberty !!!! (that's not so
> sure nowadays ...)
> If gambas deal with money I stop being interested !
> I am anti-capitalist and in france, fundation is the right way of
> deturning... laws !!!
> Well somebody said :" if I would like to make money I wouldn't create a
> fundation but a firm...
> well not sure that's works ???? " I mean in France !
> Enjoy
> HG
>

If I want to earn my life with Gambas (this would be a great thing), I have 
several possibilities, like creating my own company to sell services for 
example.

But my idea of a "fundation" (I didn't find a better name) is simply a way to 
collect little gifts without the weight of creating and managing a real 
structure that have the "moral personality" (it is the juridic term in 
France, I think - correct me if I'm wrong). At the moment, I prefer spending 
more time on coding than on public relations.

If gifts become important, I think the tax collectors will yell :-) But if the 
amount of gifts is not important (I don't think somebody will give me 
thousands of dollars), there will be no problem.

This money is not for letting me live ! It is just to allow me to buy useful 
software or hardware for Gambas without ruining me :-). And it is a way for 
non technical Gambas users to symbolically help the project.

And as for the anti-capitalist thing... I don't want to begin a political 
debate, even if I love them :-) I just want to give a few remarks about 
that...

- Capitalism needs money, but we can use money without using capitalism.

- Capitalism is money + interest, i.e. a system that allows people having 
money to earn more money without doing anything - This is the power of 
capital !

- Money existed at the time of egyptian pharaohs. But you can't say that they 
were capitalists !

- Usury (i.e. interest) is forbidden in many religions : for example, in the 
Coran, in "the cow", verse #275, #276, #278... Why ?

- Money give more money just because of the bank system. 

- I don't think I'm a evil capitalist just because I want to let people give 
money to the project ;-)

- Microsoft had had a project to replace the international bank system by its 
own (for its profit of course), but it didn't succeed - maybe they have found 
stronger than them ! So, if you are anti-capitalist, write a free program - 
in Gambas :-) - that allows anybody making secure transactions via a network 
without the need of a centralized bank system. It could help :-)

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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