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Supporting CentOSSupporting CentOSPosted Mar 29, 2011 10:17 UTC (Tue) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: Supporting CentOS by dlang Parent article: Supporting CentOS
On the other hand the CentOS-using hosting companies are competing with each other - maybe the money spent on an an extra engineer can be better spent on marketing (i.e. would return more sales)...
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Supporting CentOS Posted Mar 30, 2011 7:38 UTC (Wed) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Perhaps the solution is for hosting companies to donate money to a fund that is specifically to pay for an independent CentOS developer or tester. That way, no single hosting company has to cover the complete cost of the developer, and more of them can use a "we support CentOS" logo in their marketing, and most importantly CentOS gets more timely releases.
One of the key applications driving CentOS use in hosting is cPanel, which is by far the most popular control panel and doesn't support Debian/Ubuntu. Plesk and DirectAdmin, which seem the next most popular, do support Debian/Ubuntu and others.
Supporting CentOS Posted Mar 30, 2011 8:27 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Yes, and perhaps they could incorporate a body to manage that fund, maybe invest in R&D for CentOS. Hell, it could even turn a profit and make some money for its employees and investors.
Why has no one tried this already?
Supporting CentOS Posted Mar 30, 2011 16:32 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]
Because it is not as easy as it sounds due to a standard chicken/egg problem.
1) You have to create a vehicle that businesses could 'donate' to. That has all kinds of legal/tax issues involved. Is it a service they are subscribing to (operating expenses), is it a product they are buying (capital expenses), is it a donation that they can write off, or does it become an extra expense that they can't.
2) You have to have a product they can see (ok in this case it is developers they are buying into).. Have they done anything yet to show its not a flim-flam job
3) You have to have a sales force that they can trust. Because you are going to have to sell this crazy idea to people who think that the only way they are "winning/surviving" is by not paying for something in the first place.
Supporting CentOS Posted Mar 30, 2011 20:43 UTC (Wed) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]
I think paulj was suggesting that it has already been done by a certain Red Hat, Inc. :)
Supporting CentOS Posted Mar 31, 2011 10:43 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
I'm just talking about a legal entity to receive the funds, or even a shared bank account with multiple signatories, and a Paypal account. There's no need to make this more complex than is needed.
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