On Friday 19 February 2010 20:32:28 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
I feel like something is fundamentally different here, because the music store provides no benefit for the wider FOSS community, nor even for a particular non-profit project.
They can if it is setup properly, but wider FOSS community has not central point that will collect and distribute such income to all projects involved. You mentioned Amarok, but it could be any other project at any level of software stack that provides some useful service to end user. The income that is now used to finance single software project that has members with some business spirit, could be used to help the whole software stack, but to have that one would have to create some non-profit equivalent of company that will take care of contracts and money flow. The rules how to distribute money and how much of income will be spent on operational costs is another pair of shoes. -- Regards Rajko, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org