On 1/18/17 8:03 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi Raphael, > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Raphael Bircher > <rbircherapa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ...Why ASF dosen't found Developers?. Some people say, because to non-profit >> status. Others say, this are our rules.... > "These are our rules" would be a bad answer IMO ;-) > > The way I see it, the ASF funding development would create advantages > for companies which depend on funded projects, which is incompatible > with our charity status.
There are a lot of other non-profit charities that pay people to pursue their core mission and in fact the ASF now pays people to work on infrastructure, so I don't think this really has (or has to have) anything to do with our nonprofit status. I think the long-standing tradition of the ASF not paying "volunteers" to code on projects derives more from the first part of your answer: we don't want to pick winners. Also, we want to encourage actual volunteering. > > Strict rules might help avoid that but it's probably much easier to > handle funding independently of the ASF, as was done in the example > that I mentioned here earlier. +1 I guess that's another reason that we don't pay developers: others means exist to get funding and we have neither need nor desire to get into that. Phil > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
