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Re: donations
by Eric Laffoon on Monday 18/Oct/2004, @14:41
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Your "non professional" argument is only valid if you are talking about projects with no marketing and business savvy... good for humor maybe but not for rational consideration. See my post above...
When it becomes more trendy to use FLOSS then it is already more businesses will be going to sites of projects. Asking for a donation from a company on a web site is a difficult presentation to make. Having your company presented as a sponsor of a project on a web site other companies go to, while at the same time getting a tax write off for helping to improve critical business software is so no brainer it's not even funny.
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Re: donations
by Xanadu on Monday 18/Oct/2004, @22:17
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Mr. Laffoon,
> Your "non professional" argument is only valid if you are talking about
> projects with no marketing and business savvy...
> good for humor maybe but not for rational consideration
But doesn't KDE have "marketing value"? I believe it does. My PERSONAL OPINION is that it is the "superior Desktop for *NIX", this is why I use it. We, KDE users, prefer this "desktop" over others. *Please* correct me if I'm wrong in that assumption. And it is us, that are in "control" of corporate networks, that (help) decide what gets used. (yes, I'm stretching a bit, but you see my point)
Aside, I choose "Linux" / KDE / Gentoo for my personal (main) machine. Cool. OK, whatever. How do I convince PHB's to *POTENTIALLY* drop a few millions on some "OS" (please understand I know the difference between an OS and desktop...) when they see web sites that are asking for cash? It gets rather interseting at that point.
That was my only point (althogh I made a few in there, but... :-) )
> When it becomes more trendy to use FLOSS then it is already more businesses
> will be going to sites of projects. Asking for a donation from a company on >a web site is a difficult presentation to
> make.
Yep. You, sir, are 100% right. When it becomes more obvious that OSS (in general) is the way to go, yup, asking to feed the codist's (programmer's) kids isn't a big deal at all (and rather welcome, IMHO) ).
As far as the rest:
> Having your company presented as a sponsor of a project on a web site
> other companies go to, while at the same time getting a tax write
> off for helping to improve critical business software is so no brainer
> it's not even funny.
I agree, 100%. One just has to get to that point first, which is my point...
M.
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Re: donations
by Eric Laffoon on Thursday 21/Oct/2004, @02:13
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> Mr. Laffoon,
What's next, "sir"? I have a ponytail to my belt. ;-)
> But doesn't KDE have "marketing value"? I believe it does. My PERSONAL OPINION is that it is the "superior Desktop for *NIX", this is why I use it. We, KDE users, prefer this "desktop" over others.
I don't know where you're getting this. I said projects that didn't have marketing savvy, as in developers not knowing how to promote their projects. This is no reflection on the project. I've been using KDE since I discovered it in 2000 and I develop on it as my desktop of choice. I have only run windows a few times in the last 10+ years and I never liked it. BTW I'm running Gentoo also.
> I agree, 100%. One just has to get to that point first, which is my point...
Maybe it's just that I don't see any as points but all as a stream, and it's not really an external thing that has to happen for me, but having the resources. If I was independently wealthy I would be promoting at maximum level now. ;-)
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