>It really doesn't work for GNOME to provide free services like document
storage to the entire Internet population for whatever purpose they desire.
 It costs money per user, but we don't have a >per-user revenue model.

there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user revenue
model, or in other words commercial services over open source solutions?
for many years the largest linux desktop software provider (gnome) and
innovator in many aspects, risks to become anachronistic by not providing
the obvious, its own cloud services.

-alex


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Colin Walters <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> GNOME has a owncloud service. You can use that. (well, it might require
> bieng part of the foundation, but I might re-visit that decision)
>
>
> It really doesn't work for GNOME to provide free services like document
> storage to the entire Internet population for whatever purpose they desire.
>  It costs money per user, but we don't have a per-user revenue model.
>
> It does make sense for GNOME to provide infrastructure to *contributors*
> for the purpose of *contributing*, on a best-effort basis.  So it really
> does need to be restricted to foundation members.
>
>
>
>
>
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