Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-24 Thread Wolf Halton
Fabrizio, That sounds like a good approach. Wolf On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Fabrizio Marchesano wrote: > Hi all, > if you think it may be of interest, I could talk about the development of > tailor-made extensions for customers. > I think this may be seen as a kind of the win-win situat

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-23 Thread Fabrizio Marchesano
Hi all, if you think it may be of interest, I could talk about the development of tailor-made extensions for customers. I think this may be seen as a kind of the win-win situation which Rob is referring to: taking advantage of the whole community by learning a lot about extension development, creat

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/01/2013 Rob Weir wrote: If anyone is uncomfortable with this I can do it on my personal blog, of course. But it is relevant to the AOO project, so I'd prefer to put it here. I see no reasons to avoid this topic. But the post would actually be more credible, and enjoyable, if we actually

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Wolf Halton wrote: > sorry for the top-posting. > Android doesn't give me a lot of choice. > > My current employment is deploying opensource software for libraries, so I > am profiting modestly from developers' work that I didn't pay for, exept > when the company p

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-22 Thread Wolf Halton
sorry for the top-posting. Android doesn't give me a lot of choice. My current employment is deploying opensource software for libraries, so I am profiting modestly from developers' work that I didn't pay for, exept when the company pays one or another of them as a contractor to solve an issue we

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-21 Thread janI
On 21 January 2013 20:10, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:52 PM, janI wrote: > > On 21 January 2013 19:36, Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post > >> along the lines of "How to make money with Apache OpenOffice"? > >> > >> I ap

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
obw...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:36 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post) > > I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post > along the lines of "How to make

RE: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 although I don't know what MS Office 2003 end-of-life has to do with it, particularly. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:36 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:52 PM, janI wrote: > On 21 January 2013 19:36, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post >> along the lines of "How to make money with Apache OpenOffice"? >> >> I appreciate that Apache is a non-profit and that we do not pa

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-21 Thread janI
On 21 January 2013 19:36, Rob Weir wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post > along the lines of "How to make money with Apache OpenOffice"? > > I appreciate that Apache is a non-profit and that we do not pay for > developers, etc. But we are also commerciall

How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post along the lines of "How to make money with Apache OpenOffice"? I appreciate that Apache is a non-profit and that we do not pay for developers, etc. But we are also commercially friendly, and our permissive license and focus on c