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+title: A fair proposal
+author: Allan Nordhøy
+layout: single
+permalink: /fair/
+excerpt: An unmodest proposal, in fairness.
+categories:
+  - News
+  - Announcement
+  - Fundraiser
+tags:
+  - News
+---
+
+The better days of computing, are they ahead or right around the corner? \
+Will you let that happen? \
+The forces pulling for it, is that a "we"?
+
+Can Remmina make you feel good about donating to something
+that makes for a strong _no_ to both?
+
+Not a lot of stuff like it, when you think about it. Fair?
+Mostly dragnet surveillance with corporate overlords pushing
+politics and eroding freedom, where one is always the other.
+
+_What sorts of tools do we have, and who can you include_?
+
+Donations don't merely encourage good, they have proven to make for great results.
+Always have been. Leaps of faith and results are the not seperated by anything,
+or go into anything else. \
+Multi-monitor support, and the admirably comissioned X2Go support are recent examples
+of changes that were made possible that way.
+
+As every donation made for those changes, those are the best parts of Remmina.
+Averaging one real release per month the last two years is good news, and
+the better news is even more [honest work](https://remmina.org/program/) is possible.
+
+There is now another way to put your name on the best of all, future changes.
+Liberapay has a setting for disclosing your name when [donating](https://liberapay.com/Remmina/).
+Turn it on [here](https://liberapay.com/kingu/giving/) and your name goes straight into the next release.
+Open the "About" and notice that distances are very direct,
+serving as a nice notice that Remmina and its future can be your pet project.
+
+Through some level of ability and unwillingness to do PR, the language of blogposts
+is decidedly _different_ from your corporate standard fare.
+In some roundabout way to also divert from blogging, it is meant to showcase how open Remmina is.
+As a breaker of fourth walls, I wouldn't do this if it I was taking those donations.
+People in Remmina work hard, beyond any ability of mine. \
+That is what I want to see. That is why I donate. \
+What can be done to make this work, I think to myself.
+
+To say nothing of its more distant past, in the new ways of \
+Remmina, 2022 is further along the road to financial sustainability.
+Every time you donate anything, you are in good company, along with the many others that do.
+Sending that level upwards is a joint effort that everyone feels good about.
+
+The latest deadline for any version is the imminent date before it is packaged.
+Your donation happens during the development of a version, you will be in it. Simple.
+The immediacy amounts to wheels always being in motion.
+Scrutinize everything that goes on in detail, or play the waiting game and get surprised by a
+release that has your name in it. :)
+
+The better Remmina is better for everyone, and this value-for-value exchange is
+something to be proud of. If you donate, everyone knows you didn't have to do that.
+
+So how is 2022 Remmina the best it can be? \
+If you have an idea nobody else has, make it happen. \
+Extending an offering to have someone else do it, do you have a sum in mind? \
+Does it fit the idea you have of software you want to exist in the world? \
+How much would too much compensation be for what is done in Remmina? \
+The number you have in mind is fair.
+
+While the will for what Remmina should be is shared, loss-aversion is an interesting dynamic. \
+Sending money into a deep hole or into the unknown without knowing triggers fear. \
+Paradoxically, there are too many examples of different for the exception \
+that is Remmina to actually be perceptual reality. \
+Sometimes it seems made up that it all is what it is.
+
+Logically, all is good, but then again decisions are harder to put together.
+Play with the idea and ascribe some resulting change to it.
+There are many great features planned…
+
+Merry Yuletide, and Happy 2022.