Mandrake Defends User Club
News In launching the club last November, for example, MandrakeSoft said it was trying to dispel the notion of "donations", which wasn't seen as business-friendly, by instituting subscriptions that offered benefits such as voting rights, product...
[April 5, 2002, 15:32]
NetBSD Makes Cash Plea
News Simon pointed out while NetBSD sister projects like OpenBSD and FreeBSD had received "tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars" in donations, his own project had been a little embarassed to ask its users for contributions.
[June 14, 2005, 15:35]
Feed The World As You Surf The Net
News These ads rotate, allowing visitors to the site to make multiple donations. This information is sent to the WFP on a weekly basis, enabling them to allocate funds in proportion to the donations received per area.
[July 13, 2000, 8:02]
Commodore 64 Brand Gets New Guardian Angel
News Melbourne even hinted that Ironstone would somehow 'help' sites that are struggling for survival: "Fan sites are inviting donations and having problems. When Tulip announced the licence deal with Ironstone last week, user groups were up in arms...
[July 15, 2003, 10:37]
Firefox Joins Top Ten Global Brands
News Although the Mozilla Foundation's marketing budget cannot compare to those of billion dollar corporations, it has capitalised on its large and enthusiastic user-base to carry out large scale community marketing campaigns, such as the publication...
[January 24, 2006, 15:40]
Amazon Makes Web-ad Patent Bid
News Last year, it filed two patent applications related to its Honor System, an online payment system that lets Web sites accept small, charitable donations and to charge for content. The system continues with "receiving a request to provide the Web...
[March 25, 2003, 9:34]
Web Erupts With Mozilla Revenue Speculation
News The Mozilla Foundation exists as a Californian not-for-profit organisation and receives donations in a similar way to a charity. Calacanis claimed that when a Firefox user does a Google search using the browser's search box, Mozilla receives...
[March 10, 2006, 12:15]
Mozilla: We'll Pay Developers Where We Can
News The Mozilla Foundation is a Californian not-for-profit organisation and receives donations in a similar way to a charity. Calacanis claimed that when a Firefox user does a Google search using the browser's search box Mozilla receives approximately...
[May 25, 2006, 13:10]
Eclipse Steps Out Of IBM's Shadow
News Hardly a grassroots collaborative effort willing to take code donations from volunteers around the world, Eclipse is directed by vendors. IBM is using the Eclipse software to provide a common foundation for its suite of development tools, giving a...
[March 1, 2005, 10:20]
Dell Carves A Niche In Green Tech
News Dell, however, is making donations to offset the carbon produced in transporting the PC to consumers, Dell said. Dell will also install a user's old data at the factory when a new PC is ordered. In his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics...
[January 10, 2007, 8:12]
Mandrake Linux Download Policy Angers Club Members
News Days after MandrakeSoft launched a controversial "club" to boost its bottom line, the Linux distributor has angered many in its user community by changing the rules of the Mandrake Club programme. I find this 'new' arrangement disturbing," wrote...
[March 22, 2002, 13:39]
Phishing Growing Exponentially
News Forsyth said a prime example was during the Olympic Games in Athens when a fraudulent Web site was asking for donations to help disabled athletes participate in the Paralympic games. Victims are often lured to the sites using sophisticated socially...
[October 12, 2004, 10:45]
SETI@home Looks For User Funding
News Last October, Anderson mooted the idea of relying on funding from "grass roots donations" from the project's users, saying that they already contribute enough to the project and that even when their fiscal support is higher than normal, it "doesn...
[November 13, 2002, 9:38]
