Re: [gentoo-project] Rekindling Gentoo News -> Paying for news

["William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com>]

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On Monday, January 23, 2017 6:00:52 AM EST Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:21:12 -0500
> 
> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com> wrote:
> > > It may be worth considering getting volume licensing, ie: advertise to
> > > companies to either buy a block of subscriptions themselves which they
> > > can
> > > grant access to X number of people.
> > 
> > Not sure what you mean by advertise.
> 
> On the "Subscribe" page, you get a "Single Developer Subscription" option,
> and a "Company Subscription" option.

Are you implying a paying subscription to a newsletter that should be free? I 
was under the impression you mean like paying for actual advertising, like 
spots in the news letter or on the website.

> Though it would have to be a pretty sizeable company with a lot of staff
> using Gentoo, or the discounted rate would have to be substantiative to work
> out for them.

I do not see businesses spending money on Gentoo for a variety of factors. As 
a business owner myself I have no incentive. Gentoo would waste my money and 
not direct it toward development. Gentoo has no plans to use the money to 
further development.

I would be better off doing what companies do now. Hire people who are Gentoo 
developers, and/or can become one. Then I can pay them to do directly what I 
want. By passing anything within Gentoo, Trustees, Council, etc.

Companies are doing this now. They have no reason to give money to Gentoo

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.

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