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TDLR; Patrick Volkerding (BDfL and developer of Slackware) needs financial assistance to work on Slackware but the donation button and proceeds of sales of DVDs and merchandise do not go directly to PV at present, and he has asked the company to remove the donation link.

PV's statement is at post 8 in the thread, direct link below

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donati...

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Oh man that's really terrible to hear. I remember starting my linux journey with Slackware and 13 years later I couldn't imagine using anything other than linux for my work!

So how would one go about donating to him?

That is exactly the problem. The statement from PV suggests that he has had the donate link removed from Slackware's web site as it pointed to the company, and PV is not receiving donations directly from the company.

All we can do at present is monitor the tail of the linuxquestions thread for the appearance of something like a direct Paypal account or whatever.

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