Re: Just Passing By

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Andrew Carroll wrote:

...
>>From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
>>Subject: Re: Mneson
>>
>>Andrew Carroll wrote:
...
>>>I have an idea.  I don't know if it has already mentioned or not but
>>>lets form an international company.  [snip]
>>
>>Create an Ada credit card company, where the profits go
>>into promoting the use of Ada. The card must offer
>>competitive rates to be attractive (if they can
>>introduce a Penguin card then..)
>>--
>>Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
>>http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
> 
> Warren, you are a genius!!  I don't personally care for 'credit' (it's
> too much like usury) but maybe others don't view it that way.  Better
> yet, we could tie in the educational topics here on CLA and come up with
> a card for students.  Students who use C pay 21% interest and students
> who use Ada get an extra 19% off!  Ehh, maybe that's not fair.  Warren,
> can you tell me more about how to start a card?

I wish I could take credit for it, but alas, it has
been done before.

Linus Torvalds was (I think) the first to get a
"Open Sourced" credit card with a Penguin on it.

I know they were trying to get people to sign up
at the Toronto Real World Linux convention (they were
giving away stuffed penguins with each application).
Flipping back through some materials that I kept,
I now can report that it was LinuxFund.org.

I don't know anything about starting such a venture
myself. It might be useful for you to find out about the
LinuxFund.org effort at:

   http://linuxfund.org/

They also post an email address: fund at linuxfund.org

Good luck!
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg