I think the point is that until the foundation was set up, there was nowhere for donations to go to.

If you wanted to donate money to openSUSE, it would have to go to SUSE...

• who wants to donate to a commercial enterprise?
• even if you did, SUSE are not set up to receive donations. It'd get sent back with a note saying "what is this for?"

The Geeko Foundation has already raised significant amounts simply by existing with bank accounts.

We are planning to reach UK Charity status shortly (from being a not-for-profit) which will be even better.

/p

-----Original message-----
From: Lukáš Krejza <gryffus@hkfree.org>
Sent: Thursday 11th July 2024 12:18
To: project@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: Rebranding of the Project

Hey,

Dne čtvrtek 11. července 2024 9:37:42, SELČ, Attila Pinter napsal(a):
> You will laugh, but I had people come up to me straight up telling me that
> they don't understand the relationship between openSUSE and SUSE and they
> go back to using whatever distro they came from, and wouldn't even consider
> contributing to "SUSE's pocket". Some others just don't like SUSE so they
> refuse also. Rebranding, and having a clear differentiation between the two
> is a pretty good solution to this issue, and we should probably do it until
> we're being asked nice, and we can.
> 
> --
> Br,
> A.

So... Do potential donors nowadays have a negative perception if a commercial 
company supports a project with a Libre license or a community? How hard is it 
to explain it's the opposite and how licensing works?

Right, it's like people who dislike RedHat are donating to Fedora. Or people 
who dislike Canonical donating to Ubuntu.

Regards,
Gfs