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From: rmariani@watmum.waterloo.edu (Rico Mariani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: buying equipment for people
Keywords: organization through  anarchy
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Date: 15 Feb 88 05:56:26 GMT
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>> [ discussion about buying someone some hardware ]
>>
>    This sounds remarkabley like my idea, instead of doing it only once,
> what we could do is.  We should make a "Great amiga contributer award,"
>and it would consist of as many of us as posible donating a dollar or 800,
>to the fund.  And when we have enough, we go out and buy the person who has
>done the most for the amiga, and is not getting paid for it, or is not getting
>paid enough, something like a HD, a couple meg, or even a Mach 5 (8^)) amiga.
>This would provoke even some of us "Yeah I wrote a program that has no 'market'
>but is awfully slick nonetheless." to pd their stuff. 
>('market' is basically a catch all phrase that distributers hand you, when they
> a) want to steal your idea/program, b) don't think it can make money, 
> c) don't like your looks)

I think this is a terrific idea!  I'd be happy to donate some amount of money
towards the fund.  Maybe we could set up a 'scholarship' type thing where
we keep drawing on the interest and awarding a prize when suffient funds
have developed.  It would be real nice to see people who have done work
towards making the Amiga a more pleasant machine to work on getting some
reward.  Think we should have a referendum?  We need someone who isn't
so far away from the action as I am to collect email votes...

	-Rico