On 10/26/2010 02:44 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2010-10-26 12:31, Italo Vignoli a écrit :
Gianluca Turconi wrote:
A Foundation that collects funds and gathers contributions to further
developing LibO, and steers the wider Community for that development,
it's a reassuring idea. It's just like
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Would someone please explain where the money is coming from to fund
LibO? Where is it expected to come from in the future, assuming Oracle
will not join?
There are a few possibilities.
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Everyone, but possibly especially the user community, needs to be
reassured as far as is possible that if they commit to LibreOffice
they will be moving to a viable product and not just a flash in
the pan which will die from lack of funds in six months or a year.
For
Marc Paré wrote:
And the LibO project, as a community project, is not itself dependent on
any funding support from anyone in particular. The community project
should be able to stand on its own with membership involvement. Examples
like the small contributions see on the website thread where
Marc Paré wrote:
The LibO project is community driven, and its members are what makes it
live.
Well, Marc, I got this point very well in yours and others' messages. :)
But I still see a lot of confusion in this list about the meaning of
Community and Foundation.
I'd like to add more
Le 2010-10-26 12:31, Italo Vignoli a écrit :
Gianluca Turconi wrote:
A Foundation that collects funds and gathers contributions to further
developing LibO, and steers the wider Community for that development,
it's a reassuring idea. It's just like Mozilla.
The Document Foundation was born
Would someone please explain where the money is coming from to fund
LibO? Where is it expected to come from in the future, assuming Oracle
will not join?
There are a few possibilities. One is the certification project that we
are currently working on. (Actually I have been working on it now
