[lug] Local Open Source Project Leads/Managers

[Evelyn Mitchell]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:06:28PM -0700, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> 
> A bit of both actually.  For the most part the web currently relies on
> people simply wanting their material to be freely available.  That does
> sort of work, but lately I've been wondering how one could set something
> up so that the author isn't simply giving their ideas or work away?  The
> concept of e-books comes to mind, but I'm not sure I've seen anything that
> works particularly well yet.

Amazon is offering a system to have micropayments to websites from 
any Amazon customer:

http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/fx/home.html/ref=ilm_4/107-7867717-1889301

Regards,
Evelyn Mitchell
efm at tummy.com