On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Emily Gonyer <emilyyr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Of course people should be able to be paid to work on free software. >> That's great. But when one or two large companies pay the majority of >> developers, it becomes hard to argue that it is still a 'community >> led' project, let alone one which is independent. And that's where >> GNOME is right now. > > > If you are afraid that one entity has too much influence, you can recruit > other companies to invest as much. > > The other option mentioned is the Wikimedia option. I believe they only > collect donations from individuals. However, as far as I know, they never > had other organizations paying people's salaries, so I don't know if that's > an option for GNOME. > > Stormy
Of course Stormy. That's why I'm running for the board. I'd love to see GNOME take up a funding system similar to Wikimedia's. -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
