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On Apr 17, 2004, at 3:56 am, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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>> If you would make extremely huge profits, we couldn't ask for |
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>> a part if you reinvested all the money in your FP entity again. |
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> It's hard to make extremely huge profits selling CDs of free software |
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> (and |
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> soon, t-shirts.) I don't think you may realize that having a NFP |
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> allows for |
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> much more funding potential than a basic CD/t-shirt business. The |
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> difference |
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> in potential is very much in favor of the NFP. |
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"perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free use of the "Gentoo" trademark |
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and "G" logo" is not the same thing as "selling a few t-shirts", |
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however. |
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Surely "perpetual use of the "Gentoo" trademark and "G" logo" permits |
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Gentoo Technologies Inc the same freedoms that RedHat & Mandrake have |
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with their own trademarks & logos..? |
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I have no idea what the implications are of this. I'm sure no-one |
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begrudges you the money made off t-shirts, boxed sets or even official |
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support, however I don't see how Gentoo NFP would be protected against |
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you charging for, say, a Gentoo premium service. |
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Why not just have Gentoo NFP employ you in your cd-burning, |
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t-shirt-printing capacity, and have the NFP pay you a wage..? |
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Stroller. |
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