Am Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010 11:56:16 schrieb Henne Vogelsang:
I welcome this discussion, and think its a necessary one, but i would like to discuss it uncoupled from this example. So what is our answer to:
Can we support for-profit organizations to make money?
Are you hinting at a strategy to generate a revenue from openSUSE by providing additional services besides support / boxed edition? Like the Ubuntu Yahoo deal for browser startpage? If yes, this really is propably not how Jeff expected the discussion to turn ;-) I don't mind these actions as long as they are unintrusive, don't limit my choice and especially respect the explicit upstream projects choice. So if "openSUSE First MusikStore" store violates amarok policy then don't do it. If Firefox wishes to keep Google as startpage because it is contributing a lot of money or work respect that. But Firefox obviously doesn't expect that so switching to Microsoft Bing wouldn't get my disapproval, as I can just change it if I want to. This is what I expect from openSUSE as a good citizen, nothing actually prohibits ignoring upstreams intentions, it's free software after all. If upstream has no policy about downstream generating profit from it one should ask first, not just ship it. Karsten PS: I used openSUSE MusikStore as Ubuntu provides a useful example here. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org