Eric S. Raymond
Eric S. Raymond
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Followers
This tier is intended for those who wish to follow me as an adviser on the Loadsharers network while directing most of their support to other Load Bearing Internet People.
The $1 subscription is nominal and there only so Patreon's machinery will ship you notifications about my Loadsharers updates.
If you don't know about Loadsharers, please read http://loadsharers.net
Loadsharers
This tier is intended for members of the Loadsharers network who wish to make me one of their supported LBIPs without requesting any particular benefit.
You can read about Loadsharers at http://loadsharers.net
If you are one of my $10 patrons who has not joined Loadsharers and found yourself in this tier when I created it, please consider doing so. I am not the only Load-Bearing Internet Person in the world, and others who are also deserve your support.
Early adopters will be added to the Loadsharers Roll of Honor.
Bronze supporter
- Your name will appear as a supporter on each of my personal software project web pages (over 50 of them!) as a Bronze Supporter.
Institutional supporter
If you're an institution or corporation that uses software - even software as basic as browsers or smartphones - it is near certain that you rely on my work every day.
Please contribute from your tools budget.
* You will be listed as an institutional supporter on my project pages.
* You will receive an individual credit in the acknowledgements of my next book: "This work generously supported by:"
Followers
This tier is intended for those who wish to follow me as an adviser on the Loadsharers network while directing most of their support to other Load Bearing Internet People.
The $1 subscription is nominal and there only so Patreon's machinery will ship you notifications about my Loadsharers updates.
If you don't know about Loadsharers, please read http://loadsharers.net
Loadsharers
This tier is intended for members of the Loadsharers network who wish to make me one of their supported LBIPs without requesting any particular benefit.
You can read about Loadsharers at http://loadsharers.net
If you are one of my $10 patrons who has not joined Loadsharers and found yourself in this tier when I created it, please consider doing so. I am not the only Load-Bearing Internet Person in the world, and others who are also deserve your support.
Early adopters will be added to the Loadsharers Roll of Honor.
Bronze supporter
- Your name will appear as a supporter on each of my personal software project web pages (over 50 of them!) as a Bronze Supporter.