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On gifts, clean money and dirty money

When we are given a gift of money from someone either in connection
with CD sales or from someone else, should they generally expect
some specific consideration from us, other than things we were going
to do anyway ?

I think that the answer is clearly no.  We should not allow donations
of money to warp our aims and actions.

If a gift is clean money - from a source with similar objectives to
ours who are giving out of gratitude and a desire to help the project
- then they will be quite happy with our own objectives and we should
not feel obliged in return to act in way we would not have done
anyway.

If a gift is dirty money - from a source whose goals conflict with
ours and given to us to influence our behaviour - then we should
either take it and run - ie, do what we want anyway, and risk
upsetting the giver - or not accept it at all.

What we _say_ to people is one thing, but it would be bad to accept
money and then worry about our obligations to the giver not to (for
example) support their competitors.

The next thing we know we'll be accepting favours from smooth-talking
people whose associates have extremely pretty and deadly spidery black
spaceships and it will be the end of the world as we knew it ...

Ian.


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