Perhaps I should have been a little clearer, yes there is the ability to
contribute via marketing, documentation etc. I am getting at end users being
able to contribute financially to their favorite project.
So if OpenSolaris is made up of hundreds of smaller projects...the smaller
projects whi
What would the money be for? Volunteers don't get paid for their time.
OTOH, if one person wanted a driver for something but didn't have
a clue how to write it, and another person was willing to write it for free
but not to buy one of the device too, it seems reasonable to me that there
might be
> What would the money be for? Volunteers don't get
> paid for their time.
>
I'd be willing to donate money for a real bug database.
---Bob
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> * Finanical responsibility
> * Taxation laws
> * Ensuring that the money actually gets used for an
> "approved" purpose
> I'm relatively certain that if you said to Sun,
> "Look, here's a $US50K
> cheque to develop Solaris" they'd probably work out a
> way to accept the
> money for that purp
[i]We've talked about this many times before, but I never
really had the sense that there was a strong consensus to do more than
we are doing currently (aside from the obvious things such as docs, mail
list activity, blogs, evangelism, presentations, etc).[/i]
When I said said non-programmers I
Bob Palowoda wrote:
For $US50K you get a free phone call from the IRS no matter
if it's Sun contributing or any other entity.
Depending on many things. A valid charitable organization can
get very large donations from wealthy private citizens or corporations
without getting hassled by the IR
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Stephen Potter wrote:
> Is OpenSolaris a separate legal entity from Sun? Is it a registered
> not-for-profit or charity? Or, irregardless of the charter and
At the moment, no.
> upcoming constitution, is it legally entangled with Sun?
At the moment, yes. But I think it w
Rich Teer wrote:
At the moment, yes. But I think it would be a desirable long term
goal to have OpenSolaris becoame a separate legal entity, much like
the Apache Foundation.
This would make financial contributions from other entities much easier.
It would additionally help to clear the conce
