FWIW; I think a central site for hosting AOO extensions would be welcome. It would be fine to have such a site sponsored by donations and web publicity, and offering a share of technical support and commercial extensions would be fine too.
Pedro. --- On Mon, 11/28/11, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: ... > > Business models that might work, include: > > 1) Having a derivative of OpenOffice under a different name > that > distinguishes itself in some way that users value, and by > building a > unique brand name around these values, get traffic to your > website, > where you can then sell ads, ask for contributions, etc. > > 2) Having an independent company that is clearly > distinguished from > Apache and the AOO, that accepts donations or payment to > add features > or fix bugs in AOO. Of course, one needs to be > sensitive to the fact > that you can never guarantee that a given feature will be > accepted by > other committers. > > 3) Deployment, migration services, customization, training, > extension > development for enterprise users of OpenOffice. > > Perhaps there are other good business models? > > -Rob >
