On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Compare, for example, Apache Maven with Sonatype's Maven Central. This is similar to AOO and Extensions. This is a good example also because it shows how to treat trademarks: On the bottom of the page they say "Apache and Apache Maven are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation. Maven Central is a service mark of Sonatype, Inc. Maven Central is intended to complement Apache Maven and should not be confused with Apache Maven. Copyright ©2011 Sonatype, Inc." http://search.maven.org/ > 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 >>
