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On Monday, January 23, 2017 6:00:52 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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> > > It may be worth considering getting volume licensing, ie: advertise to |
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> > > companies to either buy a block of subscriptions themselves which they |
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> > > can |
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> > > grant access to X number of people. |
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> > Not sure what you mean by advertise. |
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> On the "Subscribe" page, you get a "Single Developer Subscription" option, |
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> and a "Company Subscription" option. |
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Are you implying a paying subscription to a newsletter that should be free? I |
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was under the impression you mean like paying for actual advertising, like |
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spots in the news letter or on the website. |
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> Though it would have to be a pretty sizeable company with a lot of staff |
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> using Gentoo, or the discounted rate would have to be substantiative to work |
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> out for them. |
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I do not see businesses spending money on Gentoo for a variety of factors. As |
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a business owner myself I have no incentive. Gentoo would waste my money and |
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not direct it toward development. Gentoo has no plans to use the money to |
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further development. |
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I would be better off doing what companies do now. Hire people who are Gentoo |
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developers, and/or can become one. Then I can pay them to do directly what I |
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want. By passing anything within Gentoo, Trustees, Council, etc. |
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Companies are doing this now. They have no reason to give money to Gentoo |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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