On Tuesday 12 August 2003 06:39 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:28:22PM -0700, pineapple spake thusly: > > distributed nature. It's possible that IBM management > > is not aware of the Freenet Project and would be > > interested in learning about the project and > > supporting it financially. > > Unless you get very lucky any company putting money into an open source > project is going to want to dictate the goals and priorities because they > hope to make the project suitable for their particular application. I have > funded open source projects as a company and that is exactly what we did.
OK, Let them. Wait, hear me out! If a company wants to take Freenet in a different direction, tell them "You can higher your own developers to work on Freenet. We will talk with them, and accept their changes to the code if we think they are an improvement." Then they can higher whoever they want, worst case scenario, they do something you do not like and end up maintaining their own branch. No loss. Freenet gains through any general improvements they make. This cannot harm the project. _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
