Re: [OT] OpenSource Documentation Fund

[Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com>]

>Thus I think we need other methods of funding.  Governments and
>charitable organizations could be one source.  Another is to ask for
>donations from users of Linux, especially ones who have gotten it
>free by downloading or using someone else's CD.

>Sort of like shareware applications. Maybe this could be at least part of
>the solution for LDP funding. Perhaps the LDP should consider developing
>multiple sources of revenue, rather than trying to get it all from one >source.

>OK, I've wasted enough of everyone's time, so I should shut up now I >guess.
>:)

The problem with this is the LDP does not exist. Not in a business sense
anyway. That is why Opendocs is paying authors directly instead of
letting the LDP disperse funds.

Joshua Drake



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