<story><title>An urgent appeal from git-scm.com maintainer Scott Chacon</title><url>http://git-scm.com/appeal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>Man, people really hate that Wikipedia fund drive.  It really worries me how people have no trouble with ads blaring music and obscuring the text of pages they are reading, or with advertisers dictating what content can and cannot be published, but everyone gets super upset when the guy who started the website puts his picture at the top and says, &quot;hey guys, providing a free encyclopedia costs money, mind chipping in $10?&quot;.&lt;p&gt;You know you can just click the &quot;X&quot; and it goes away, right?&lt;p&gt;(Just out of curiosity, do people get this upset when NPR and PBS do their fund drives?  Or because you are getting a lunchbox for your $100 donation, it&apos;s not as annoying?  The outrage just confuses me.)</text></comment>
<story><title>An urgent appeal from git-scm.com maintainer Scott Chacon</title><url>http://git-scm.com/appeal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seiji</author><text>It&apos;s a joke parodying &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA032/en/US&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA032/en/US&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t imagine Scott or a tiny git website is in need of money.&lt;p&gt;Amusingly, if you try to enter an amount greater than $25000, google checkout just dies.</text></comment>