Re: [Fsfe-uk] Linux User & Developer Expo

[Roger Leigh]

Marc Eberhard <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:37:01PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Could AFFS do more to advocate users of free software (particularly
>> companies) make contributions to the development of the software that
>> they depend on?  I'm thinking of things like this:
>> 
>> - Financial donations to specific individuals/projects
>> - Donation of equipment
>> - Donations of employee time and expertise
>>   (have you got your employer to disclaim copyright on work on free
>>    software, or assign it to the FSF?)
>> - Employing free software programmers to work on free software
>
> It's mainly a question of finding someone to do the actual work. There are
> lots of good things, we could do, if we only had a few more people being
> able to invest some time. We are clearly more limited in terms of volunteers
> than we are in financial terms.

OK.

>> One argument that could be used it that given the savings the company
>> makes by using free software over proprietary alternatives, could part
>> of that saving be donated to free software projects?
>
> Sure. Do you volunteer to get this started?

What would this entail?  I don't have many connections with companies
(and certainly no-one in any position of influence), but would writing
some material for AFFS about how people and companies could contribute
to free software projects be a reasonable start?


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Roger Leigh

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