A third party like a Team OpenOffice under a name that avoids users confusion with Apache OpenOffice could raise money and fund development as a separate, independent entity. That's what IBM did. The entity just needs to be careful about guaranteeing the work will be taken by Apache OpenOffice.
It really is that simple now. I suppose it was much more confusing while the project was in the Incubator and all email threads became so emotionally charged and frenetic. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 16, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Raphael Bircher <rbircherapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Am .01.2017, 11:00 Uhr, schrieb Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de>: > >> Hello, >> >>> From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:legi...@gmail.com] >> >>> We see in Star citizen how mighty crowd can be. >>> >>> Maybe a platform would be great where people can pledge money >>> for something >>> they need. >>> If the needed budget is reached, payed developers implement it. >>> Or we could do it as a bonus system. You pledge money on a >>> bug/enhancement, >>> if the bug gets included in the release the developers get a payout. >> >> >> >>> This is just an idea. I am not sure if we can do business >>> within the ASF or >>> if we have to found a 3rd party entity for this. >>> If we have to go 3rd party I prefer a cooperative society as >>> a legal form. >>> https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/social-economy/cooperative >>> s/european-cooperative-society_de >> >> You are basically right, but let me give the following information. >> >> Team OpenOffice was such a project. The participants were mainly experienced >> OpenOffice developers from SUN Microsystems. > I think, the real problem there was this text > http://www.opensourceforbusiness.info/openoffice-org-droht-das-aus/ > >> >> See: >> https://web.archive.org/web/20120107200702/http://teamopenoffice.org/de/the-team-de.html >> >> But Apache made a front against this project and so it was no chance. The >> only short-term result was "White Label Office", see for example: >> http://www.chip.de/downloads/White-Label-Office_53492033.html >> >> I do not want to criticize one-sidedly, here is a different view: >> http://www.golem.de/1112/88663.html >> >> But Apache is the larger party and it would be the task of Apache to >> recognize opportunities and bundle forces. >> >> This is unfortunately the truth and it is a central problem for OpenOffice. > > The only restriction the ASF have is, that you can not collect money in the > name of a project as a third party. And Apache itself does not found > defelopment. > > But you can collect money for Features or major bugfixes as a third party. > This model is vor sure easyer to setup, if you have some big company who put > a load of money to it. In my mind is a collaboration with Source Forge. They > rich a load of OpenOffice users. > > Regards Raphael > -- > Mein Blog: https://raphaelbircher.blogspot.ch > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
