Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, David Brian Chait wrote: >>Anyone know someone who can front at least 2 years working capital to get >>started and productive? > > >From a pure business standpoint, it would be near impossible to pull off. No > >one is going to pony up $2,000,000 to start CentOS u

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-28 Thread David Brian Chait
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Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-28 Thread David Brian Chait
>Anyone know someone who can front at least 2 years working capital to get >started and productive? >From a pure business standpoint, it would be near impossible to pull off. No >one is going to pony up $2,000,000 to start CentOS up as a for-profit company. >Aside from the small point that you w

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 3/27/2011 5:36 AM Ian Murray spake the following: > > >> >> What makes you think CentOS is not willing to be commercially sponsored? >> (Or only work developing CentOS?) >> >> I would LOVE to be able to do CentOS as my only job. >> >> No one that we know of is willing to pay a full time salary

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-27 Thread Ian Murray
> > What the CentOS project would be interested in (from a corporate > provider) would be to hire people and allow them to do CentOS related > things. > > We are not interested in being paid in addition to our current work, but > making taking care of CentOS our only work. > > There are many t

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-27 Thread David Hrbáč
Dne 27.3.2011 17:33, Johnny Hughes napsal(a): > What the CentOS project would be interested in (from a corporate > provider) would be to hire people and allow them to do CentOS related > things. > > We are not interested in being paid in addition to our current work, but > making taking care of Cen

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-27 Thread Gary Scarborough
Fair enough. I have no complaints with the current volunteers. I was mainly just curious. Thanks for the reply. On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > > >There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer list and > this list about CentOS. My initial thought was

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/27/2011 07:36 AM, Ian Murray wrote: > > >> >> What makes you think CentOS is not willing to be commercially sponsored? >> (Or only work developing CentOS?) >> >> I would LOVE to be able to do CentOS as my only job. >> >> No one that we know of is willing to pay a full time salary for 1 or 2

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:36:02 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > > > > What makes you think CentOS is not willing to be commercially sponsored? > > (Or only work developing CentOS?) > > > > I would LOVE to be able to do CentOS as my only job. > > > > No one that we know of is wi

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-27 Thread Ian Murray
> > What makes you think CentOS is not willing to be commercially sponsored? > (Or only work developing CentOS?) > > I would LOVE to be able to do CentOS as my only job. > > No one that we know of is willing to pay a full time salary for 1 or 2 > or 3 people to develop CentOS.  If they would p

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/26/2011 07:46 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > >> There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer list and >> this list about CentOS. My initial thought was why not have CentOS and SL >> merge. Since they have different goals I can understand the reason not to. >> So my next q

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-26 Thread Ian Murray
>There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer list and >this list about CentOS.  My initial thought was why not have CentOS and SL >merge.  Since they have different goals I can understand the reason not to.  >So my next question is, has no corporate entity offered to spons

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-26 Thread Gary Scarborough
Well, I ask because there are people supporting SL to the degree that they have full time people working on it, yet they don't actually aim for 100% binary compatibility, just "good enough". I have used CentOS for a while and wasn't really aware of SL until recently. With all the projects that get

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.03.2011 um 22:16 schrieb Gary Scarborough: > There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer > list and this list about CentOS. My initial thought was why not > have CentOS and SL merge. Since they have different goals I can > understand the reason not to. So my n