Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

[Eric S. Raymond]

In recent mail on the users list, I said this:

>You're not on IRC or Signal so you don't know; I've been hit
>with some serious medical bills recently due to needing arthroscopic
>surgery for a bone lesion in my ankle.

This has refocused my attention on a problem that has been worryimng
me for years: how we fund developers working on critical Internet
infrastructure when there's no stream of profits attached to it for
them to live on.

Please visit http://loadsharers.net and consider that attempt at a
solution.

If you think it has merit, please take the pledge and spread the word 
in technical communities where you have influence.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be
properly armed."
        -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188