Re: [Fsfe-uk] Funding Open Source

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Paul wrote:

> I'd love there to be someway that the likes of Scribus could be funded 
> to an extent where the three of us can develop the software, yet still
> have a living wage - much in the same way as the main bunch behind
> OpenOffice are employed by Sun, yet they are exclusively on the
> OpenOffice product.
> 
> Pity there isn't some big company out there willing to do this with not
> only Scribus, but the likes of Rosegarden, Lilypond and Cinerella.

There isn't a big company for it however one small company is raising 
money to do just this kind of thing in the UK - mine.

UK Free Software Network will be making it's first payment to AFFS at 
Linux Expo. 

The initial payment wont be that much (although it will be five times as 
much as I thought it might when I last mentioned this here) however 
UKFSN's accounts are now firmly in the black and the projections I have 
here indicate that the financial position will get better fairly quickly.

It's up to AFFS as to how the money will be distributed and there are a 
number of areas it's likely to be put to use in.

Jason Clifford
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