Ross, could you relay this to ComDev? It seems that putting some version of your writeup under the community pages would be useful, since this is moving from outside of D&I's area and more of a community and policy issue, in general. In order to make this easier, I've cc'ed dev@community on this.
Cheers! On 2019/06/20 07:41:48, Ross Gardler <r...@microsoft.com.INVALID> wrote: > "The mission of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is to provide software > for the public good. We do this by providing services and support for many > like-minded software project communities consisting of individuals who choose > to participate in ASF activities."> > > We pay for operational activities in order to provide "services and support > for many like-minded software project communities".> > > We don't pay for software development in our projects because our "software > project communities consist of individuals who choose to participate in ASF > activities." Paying people to produce the software is not creating > communities of people who choose, but rather (in part) people paid by us to > be present. This can result in the ASF deciding which projects win, rather > than the market doing so (as happens when external companies pay for > development) . By putting ourselves in a position of influence we can no > longer be independent of market forces and thus it becomes very hard to be > vendor neutral. A lack of vendor neutrality makes it difficult to "provide > software for the public good".> > > Of course an argument can be made that paying for software development to > make our operations more efficient is acceptable. I believe it is. We already > do it since infra staff write software for us, regularly. Others are > concerned about this being a slippery slope to paying for software more > generally.> > > Ross> > > Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36>> > > ________________________________> > From: Awasum Yannick <aw...@apache.org>> > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 12:21:01 AM> > To: d...@diversity.apache.org> > Subject: Why does the ASF not pay for development?> > > Hi all,> > > Why does the foundation not pay for development?> > > Why do they pay for operations?> > > Why do they pay for accounting?> > > What argument lead to this core principles?> > > I want to understand as am new to the Apache way.> > > I know it might be taking us back or might even be the wrong list. Just> > help me understand.> > > Thanks.> > Awasum> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
