> I'd like to suggest as a social convention that the initial "license fee" be > 10% of system cost and "support fee" after the first year at 5%. Purely > voluntary the way tipping service staff in restaurants used to be. No > distinction between used or new equipment. So if you spin up an old SPARC > system using Martin's work you contribute 10% of the purchase price. 2% to > the general support coffers and the rest to your choice of staff (which in > this case should clearly be Martin).
I personally wouldn't like the idea of any specific payment levels set, either by convention or otherwise. I just know that from a business perspective we're making money off Oi and could actually afford to provide quite a bit (it makes business sense as well). Others may not be in the same position. > On further reflection I think there should also be a tally of who's > contributed and how much. My assumption is that there are people building > systems for clients. It would provide a means of evaluating how much OI > based work they're doing which would be valuable to potential clients looking > for a system or support. There might be a value in having some sponsor pages for donations past a certain threshold, but announcing actual figures might put some people off. I think we really need to get the devs involved though, to see if they're actually interested in any of this! James _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
