On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:31:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Stephen Frost wrote: > > Do you have any suggestion as to something that'd be a consistent > > revenue source for Debian that you *wouldn't* be opposed to? Maybe a > > Debian Magazine (with/without ads?)? Or a subscriber-only Debian > > website (run by those willing to provide the content for it, obviously)? > > What about Debian selling CDs directly (though, well, it'd help if we > > released on a more regular basis for that, but then, that'd be a good > > thing for us to do *anyway*)? > > SPI could start a sponsorship program for Debian and the other > associated programs like the FSF Europe did[1]. That could mean that > there would be 200 s upporters with EUR 10/month, ..., and 2 with 500 > EUR/month or something. Does anybody actually have any uses for such a revenue source that would not be better served by creating an independent organisation? That's the part where all these things usually fall down. Debian does not currently need it. I can't imagine any scenario in which Debian could need it, which is not a case of somebody trying to load extra irrelevant tasks onto Debian. We are not a clearing house for random things vaguely releated to free software. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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