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On Monday, January 23, 2017 5:57:55 AM EST Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:21:12 -0500 |
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> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Corporate sponsors will only sponsor Gentoo if they have a direct benefit. |
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> > Right now with how Gentoo is. There is no reason for anyone to give Gentoo |
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> > money, individual or corporation. |
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> People reading the newsletter seeing that a company sponsored it both makes |
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> people more aware that a company exists, and gives them confidence that the |
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> company cares enough about opensource to sponsor it. |
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I am very aware of benefits to sponsorship. That was something I wanted to see |
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more of when I was a Trustee. |
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As a business owner, you keep missing the point. Why should any business give |
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money to Gentoo? What do the get? Representation? A vote? Anything? |
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Businesses do not sponsor for no reason. Individuals donate to something as a |
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fan, but not the same as a business. Businesses usually need a direct benefit, |
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one that can effect their bottom line. Thus their incentive to sponsor or |
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donate. |
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A write off is not a motivating factor. Business can write off many expenses. |
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> And this makes opensource preferring people more likely to choose that |
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> company. |
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> How do you think The Perl Foundation has money to pay for developing things? |
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Or like I have pointed out FreeBSD. But these are properly run foundations |
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with budgets, fund raisers, etc. They pay for many tasks. |
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Gentoo is very far from having a well run Foundation. I doubt moving to the |
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SPI, etc would do such. Most that have corporate sponsors run their own |
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foundations. |
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Businesses sponsoring development are going to want to see effort. Since |
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Gentoo cannot tell anyone what to work on. Not sure how that would work. |
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Business wants to see A developed, people work on B instead. Business pulls |
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sponsorship. |
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This do what ever model of Gentoo with no requirements, no direction, no |
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"managers/bosses", no one directing development or focusing efforts. No way a |
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business would sponsor Gentoo. Why it gets very little in the way of donations |
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or sponsors compared to others. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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