On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:14 AM, William Li <william.li.ins...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If there are ways to check contributions by companies, it could be a > win-win for both the individuals and the companies who are sponsoring. > It could be a win if Apache were interested in being a pay-for-play sort of foundation. We aren't. We are a charity intended to contribute to the public good. We can't legally be a charity if companies can just hire us to do what they want. We don't want to be that in any case. It *is* harder to get sponsorship if you can't explain that there is a $ for result connection. But sponsorship isn't the goal.