It sounds like the objections have been answered, so: +1
-James On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 18:06 +0100, Daniel Florey wrote: > So I propose to make a vote if it would be ok for everyone to add a link to > XMLMind to the sponsors page that indicates that they just gave us free > XMLEditor licenses. OK? > > +1 from me of course > > Daniel > > > "Slide Developers Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am > 09.11.04 17:35:25: > > > > Unico Hommes wrote: > > > I'm not sure this is a policy the ASF would approve of. I don't think I > > > have ever seen this type of sponsorship in any ASF project. As you know > > > ASF works on the basis of merit where contributions are rewarded on an > > > individual basis. Personally I would be strongly against this form of > > > partnership where the only cooperative structure is a material one. If > > > XMLMind is interested in cooperation of the kind we do at the ASF, then > > > the first step would be to make their product ASL or compatible. > > > > FYI this has been done before and has never been a problem at the ASF > > AFAIK. IBM has been giving away hardware. No one complained. It's > > sponsoring. > > > > We at the Ant PMC have been given Intellij IDEA licenses for all > > committers of the project per request. For about 3 years now I think. > > > > Many moons ago, at the beginning of the Gump experiment I also contacted > > WebGain so that we could deploy test coverage and code auditing to all > > java projects (and I talked about it to Sam), it was on its way when > > they shut down operations... same about Sitraka and JProbe where I have > > been asking for free licenses...it was on its way when they were > > absorbed by Quest. Now considering each time I'm asking something the > > company is shutdown and absorbed, I'm being silent :) > > > > Plus the panorama is much different than it was many moons ago, there > > are more open source tools in coverage and audit now. > > > > I think Costin (or is it Remy) also asked for optimizeit license for the > > tomcat committers. Not sure how it went, you may ask them, but > > OptimizeIt shows up in the tomcat mailing list every time they speak > > about optimization. > > > > We have some companies like Atlassian (Jira, Confluence) and Cenqua > > (Clover) giving away licenses to opensource projects, and this is not > > for fun. They are using open source products (mostly ASL) but this is > > giving A LOT of exposure to the product and the company. In terms of > > marketing this is considerable. > > > > And if it helps people to do a better work with better tools, what's the > > problem ? until...there are equivalent opensource products. > > > > Stephane > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Mit WEB.DE FreePhone mit hoechster Qualitaet ab 0 Ct./Min. > weltweit telefonieren! http://freephone.web.de/?mc=021201 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
