Re: sponsor NetBSD for 2020 https://github.com/sponsors/NetBSD

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

Indeed -- casting a wide net is in our interest.  I hope you are able
to use one of our many potential donation offerings -- paypal, stripe,
amazon smile, github sponsorship.. any I am missing?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 7:55 AM Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:31:26 +0100
> Matthias Petermann <mp%petermann-it.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Hallo Matthew,
> >
> > Am 10.11.2020 um 05:35 schrieb matthew sporleder:
> > > Hey -- the end of the year is coming up fast.  Wouldn't you feel
> > > better about yourself if you added a github sponsorship to balance
> > > out your incredible year? :)
> > How does this type of donation compare to a Paypal Monthly
> > Subscription? Is it just a different way of transport, or are there
> > advantages / disadvantages to Paypal?
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Matthias
>
> It looks to me like github sponsorship is geared towards small
> developers who don't have their own project web page, with
> payment submission links, etc. The irritating thing about github is
> that they don't allow you to submit bug reports or donations unless you
> setup an account on their platform. Last thing I want to do is to create
> various social media accounts on competing platform - GitHub, GitLab,
> SourceForge, Bitbucket, GNU Savannah, ... and the list goes on. Life is
> too short for that nonsense. Luckily NetBSD accept bug reports and
> donations on their official web site, and you don't have to sign up for
> anything.