In response to "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 16 Jul 2007 at 16:30, Dan Langille wrote: > > > On 16 Jul 2007 at 22:19, Francisco Rodrigo Cortinas Ma wrote: > > > > > - In the fact that you need funding, the right way is to ask for > > > "donations". This will remain valid as long as the project > > remains > > > "small". > > > > We have asked for donations. In a prevoius email, Kern mentioned > > this has been about $8000 since 2000. That's about $4 a day. Given > > the number of users, it's pretty clear that donations don't work. > > Please ignore my calculations. They are not based on fact. I messed > up. My apologies. > > My point remains: donations are insufficient to fund the project
Just in case anyone is keeping score or taking a survey. I think Kern's plan is a good one. My reasons for saying so are: * If you don't want to pay, you can always build your own binaries. Aside from the Win32 binaries, we build most of our own anyway. You can also build your own binaries and redistribute them if you'd like. * The code is still free in both the beer and the speech sense. This means you can build your own binaries and redistribute them if you'd like. Did I already mention that? * I've been trying to move some money toward the Bacula project, but it's been difficult for exactly the reasons Kern mentioned. Having either a registered 501c3 or a incorporated company of some sort would make this easier. So, I think it's a good plan from every angle. Furthermore, I think that anyone who doesn't think it's a good plan either hasn't reviewed it thoroughly, or has some strange axe to grind. As I see it, this will allow big corporations to be more comfortable adopting Bacula. The money coming from the corps will fuel additional development, which will benefit folks who aren't willing to or prefer not to pay. As Kern said, the only losers I see in this are the existing backup software companies who are charging big bucks. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
