On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 12:20 +0200, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > > nothing mean, don't worry :-) ... I understand "private" as entity > formed of individuals and corporations only representing themselves, > which is the case here.
But isn't that the case with all projects? Isn't Mozilla a group of people representing themselves under the name Mozilla? Debian?. Ok, Red Hat is a company. I think the distinction is between a company employing people to make a profit perhaps and volunteers working for a common cause without expecting financial rewards. > Well, I like these things to be clear. After all, by reading the ZDNet > article, people could have believed that OASIS founded this fellowship, > when no such org, nor OpenOffice.org itself helped founding it. The press get things wrong from time to time as has been explained. > So, if > one is able to make such mistakes, the understanding that by donating to > this fellowship is the same that donating to OpenOffice.org is possible, > but unfortunately wrong. So would the notion that donating to ODF was the same as donating to KOffice which is also a user of the ODF format. I don't think there is too much to worry about on the subject of donations. If ODF raises significant funds, its not likely to be from passive donations, much more likely from providing services or from larger donations from individuals and/or companies who really understand the issues. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
