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 | | At about the same time I heard about that, I receive a notice from the treasurer of the Eldred Legal Defense Fund (which does not need money at the moment), that we had received an extremely large contribution from “someone in Japan.” I tracked it down, and discovered that the incredibly talented Mr. |
 | | Yamagata, who has translated tons of great stuff, and also has translated my books, has a policy of giving “50% of the money [he] earns from free-software related translation to free-software related projects.” |
 | | And on the very same day I learned about this gift from Yamagata, I learned of the work of Luke Francl to take a bit from my OSCON speech and try to do some good with it. |
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