“I want to tell you about the most interesting e-mail that
crossed my desk this week — a missive from Open Source guru Eric
S. Raymond….”
“Eric, as usual, was quite eloquent. In any case, he’s
right, this is a dilemma that a surprisingly large number of you
could face in the near term. As it happens, a college buddy of
mine, Steve Kirsch, the founder of Infoseek (among several other
companies) has given a great deal of thought to the subject, since
the same thing happened to him. His thoughts are posted at
www.skirsch.com/charity/charity.htm. Basically, he disagrees with
Eric in that he thinks your first order of business should be to
develop an intelligent plan to give the money away.”