Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-24 Thread Wolf Halton
Fabrizio, That sounds like a good approach. Wolf On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Fabrizio Marchesano fmarches...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, if you think it may be of interest, I could talk about the development of tailor-made extensions for customers. I think this may be seen as a kind of

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-23 Thread Fabrizio Marchesano
Hi all, if you think it may be of interest, I could talk about the development of tailor-made extensions for customers. I think this may be seen as a kind of the win-win situation which Rob is referring to: taking advantage of the whole community by learning a lot about extension development,

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-22 Thread Wolf Halton
sorry for the top-posting. Android doesn't give me a lot of choice. My current employment is deploying opensource software for libraries, so I am profiting modestly from developers' work that I didn't pay for, exept when the company pays one or another of them as a contractor to solve an issue we

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/01/2013 Rob Weir wrote: If anyone is uncomfortable with this I can do it on my personal blog, of course. But it is relevant to the AOO project, so I'd prefer to put it here. I see no reasons to avoid this topic. But the post would actually be more credible, and enjoyable, if we

How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post along the lines of How to make money with Apache OpenOffice? I appreciate that Apache is a non-profit and that we do not pay for developers, etc. But we are also commercially friendly, and our permissive license and focus on

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:52 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: On 21 January 2013 19:36, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post along the lines of How to make money with Apache OpenOffice? I appreciate that Apache is a non-profit

Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:36 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post) I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post along the lines of How to make money with Apache OpenOffice? I appreciate