From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A886A139085 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 17:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE07421C102; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 17:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.obsidian-studios.com (mail2.obsidian-studios.com [45.79.71.79]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5314221C100 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 17:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28525 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2017 17:17:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO assp2.obsidian-studios.com) (wlt@::ffff:127.0.0.1) by ::ffff:127.0.0.1 with ESMTPA; 22 Jan 2017 17:17:26 -0000 X-Assp-Version: 2.5.3(16294) on assp2.obsidian-studios.com X-Assp-ID: assp2.obsidian-studios.com m1-05446-18362 X-Assp-Session: 3781946B758 (mail 1) X-Assp-Envelope-From: wlt-ml@o-sinc.com X-Assp-Intended-For: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Assp-Server-TLS: yes Received: from unknown ([fdbe:bad:a55:0:1::211] helo=wlt.localnet) by assp2.obsidian-studios.com with SMTPSA(TLSv1_2 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256) (2.5.3); 22 Jan 2017 09:17:25 -0800 From: "William L. Thomson Jr." To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Rekindling Gentoo News -> Paying for news Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:17:25 -0500 Message-ID: Organization: Obsidian-Studios, Inc. In-Reply-To: <20170123060052.622b7950@katipo2.lan> References: <20170123060052.622b7950@katipo2.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart24378608.n8n1M1lIX1"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 4b93cea4-90fc-41e1-b229-42f2bdea5fd3 X-Archives-Hash: f9d7c4a40174c5b07a8de696bda78368 --nextPart24378608.n8n1M1lIX1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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." 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. --nextPart24378608.n8n1M1lIX1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQTEeldqZjmVut8bVHJNcbKkg6ozUAUCWITpJQAKCRBNcbKkg6oz ULPMAJ4jUlEMNp7kSl3HAXuAIfJZBcjFLQCgpXS6XavI7gJqyeHHXzysEDA5Eu0= =TARl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart24378608.n8n1M1lIX1--