Hi Donald,
Le 20 déc. 11 à 19:39, Donald Harbison a écrit :
Götz,
Thank you very much for this information. We wish we had heard from
you much sooner.
Some additional comments and questions inline.
To 3:
Here is a quote from a kind user who is trying to help us to make
our case. I think this is a pretty good explanation of our
situation: "Oracle used to pay our salaries to work on
OpenOffice,org, but since Oracle turned OpenOffice.org over to the
Apache Foundation, it no longer pays us. We were primary
contributors to OpenOffice.org, we love it, and we want to be able
to work on it full-time. Unless a large company or government
hires us to do this (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), we are trying to
support ourselves via donations -- until we are ready to sell
service contracts. Donations to the Apache Foundation, while a
nice thing to do, can not be used for this purpose, so you will
need to donate to Team OpenOffice.org as a separate entity."
And collecting donations is something -- as you know -- Team
OpenOffice.org always did!
Yes, but in the past the donations were disbursed for a different
purpose,
Must be my english: could you explain "disbursed" please ?
AFAIK; e.g. support to individuals to travel and attend
OpenOffice.org conferences, education, etc.,
Do you travel for free ? Reading you, looks like volunteers will
have to pay for attending events ...
To my knowledge, this money has been spent honestly, and IT was a
VERY GOOD thing. Ask to the students who received such help to attend
OOoCon, or any other event ...
Please confirm that I wrongly understood you :-)
Thanks in advance,
Eric Bachard
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