With everything you have, of course, to consider whether the joy is worth the price.
Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > On 10/13/2014 10:02 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: > >> True, whether or not to pursue the exploitation of an e-commerce activity >> by The ASF is something that needs to analysed thoroughly regarding the >> fiscal and social implications. >> >> But, before such endeavour is undertaken the ASF could use the >> capabilities >> of OFBiz to showcase the books related to the works of the Apache Projects >> (without opening it up to take in orders). This could assist (in a unified >> way) in branding the products of the Apache projects. And this can be done >> by (delegated to) any interested contributor within any project. And >> thereby achieving that the list of books is more up to date than it is >> today. >> > > What we have encouraged in the past is for people/companies to set up > their own stores and welcomed any donations that they wished to make back > to the Foundation from profits. We've never really entertained the notion > of an official store. > > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > >
