Marc Paré <marc <at> marcpare.com> writes: > > Le 2010-11-18 05:48, Italo Vignoli a écrit : > > Marc Paré wrote: > >> Just so that we (the marketing team) be aware of such articles. Here > >> it is: > >> http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/02/the-unsaid-document- foundation/#more-2440 > >> > >> Not really looking for any comments. > > > > I am more than aware, he is a member of the Italian community with a > > very negative approach for a simple reason: he has built his business > > model on the assumption that free software needs a corporate > > sponsorship, because he is consulting to corporations sponsoring free > > software projects.
This is both false and inaccurate. It is false because my approach is not negative, rather constructive. I have been raising a number of issues, and some of them have been positively considered by Michael Meeks, as seen in his replies (http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2010-11-02.html). We still have very different views on some topics, like copyright ownership, and I keep offering a different perspective bringing factual evidences (http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/19/open-source-communities-control- community-report-the-451-group/). It is innaccurate and unfounded, because my consultancy services around open source projects rate higher projects backed by communities, and even higher those backed by foundations. And then the idea that my job is to work for "corporations sponsoring free software projects" is naïve, considering how rarely it happens I could starve myself if it was half true!:) > > > > If TDF succeeds in demonstrating that there might be a different > > approach, his business model (or part of his business model) is gone. On the contrary if the TDF would succeed, this would prove again that a significant part of the metrics I use to evaluate projects (ranging from the community size and management style to the level of openness in project's governance) are of help to assess projects' sustainability. > > Thanks for the info. I hope it helps. Roberto > Marc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
