Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (103 mails)

[Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 02/23/2010 06:10 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 2/23/2010 8:31 AM, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> > While in general I have no objections to include stuff which could
> > generate money for non-profit or for-profit as long as I have the choice
> > to use it or not.
> >
> > In the Ubuntu case I'm not so sure as it's direct "competition" to our
> > project. It depends on how big the advantage of a service/application is
> > for our users. I cannot see a black/white decision process here :-(
>
> In terms of this type of situation (and again, the Music Store just
> being an example), probably the real questions are more like:
>
> 1) What benefit does this provide for our users?
> 2) Does this fall in line with our existing policies?
> 3) If 1) and 2) don't have clear positive answers, is profit-sharing
> with openSUSE that can be directed back to the project worth overlooking
> 1) and 2)?
> 4) What about if this service directly conflicts with one already
> established by a non-profit entity?

Only if we would be interested in balancing profit, based on who you are
(for-profit, "good" player and so on). I'm no so keen to get us  into
that business...

Henne

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