On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Raphael Bircher <rbircherapa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Luciano, * > > Can we really expect that? I don't think. The subscription we get costs a > load of money per year for normal people out there. We have to be lucky for > such an offer. I think, Microsoft don't like to support a inactive > committer, who save a load of money and work anymore for the ASF. So I > understand, that they only give the subscribtion for a year. So I think we > should be thankful for this. > Various companies provide free license for their products for open source usage (e.g. InteliJ, Atlassian) and they have a very simple process for applying. Looks like for MS we don't have a simple process to apply anomore, so I was looking at alternatives, and one that came to mind was to after going through the "long validation process", then the committer is approved for a long term subscription. Then we could definetly tweak the process, periodically simle revalidation, where committer would say I am still using for Open Source purposes, or Termination when MS stop providing the functionality. > > I was also profiting two years from the MSDN Subscription, even the main > work was for Apache OpenOffice! > > Also MS is one of the longest standing Platium sponsor from the ASF (or > the longest) > > Sure, but we are also producing software that works on the MS platform, and without the subscription, it gets harder to validate and support gets stale (e.g a notebook project I help has been having build and running issues on Windows, and I don't have a valid license to try to fix this on the Win platform) ... So I believe it's a mutual benefit here. -- Luciano Resende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
