Financial woes for Slackware's Patrick Volkerding
Financial woes for Slackware's Patrick Volkerding
Posted Jul 26, 2018 21:42 UTC (Thu) by kragil (guest, #34373)In reply to: Financial woes for Slackware's Patrick Volkerding by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Financial woes for Slackware's Patrick Volkerding
You mean (3) .. anyways:
You could argue Slackware has done and is still doing a lot of good for the Linux community and maybe the LF members only care for Open Cloud Core Blockchain LTS Version 11, but that is probably build up from packages that got a lot of testing from Slackware over the decades.
I know being a socialist a absolut no-go in the US. The market will do only good for the people and if bad things happen to you you shouldn't have been so lazy, I know.
But still it would be great marketing and PR if some rich players in the Linux field could work something out with Patrick.
You could argue Slackware has done and is still doing a lot of good for the Linux community and maybe the LF members only care for Open Cloud Core Blockchain LTS Version 11, but that is probably build up from packages that got a lot of testing from Slackware over the decades.
I know being a socialist a absolut no-go in the US. The market will do only good for the people and if bad things happen to you you shouldn't have been so lazy, I know.
But still it would be great marketing and PR if some rich players in the Linux field could work something out with Patrick.
Posted Jul 26, 2018 22:01 UTC (Thu)
by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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Financial woes for Slackware's Patrick Volkerding
I am not against it but your effort is better spend organizing a grass roots campaign with a more diverse funding model from the current users rather than rely on a single association. Even if they agree now, that might not last and you can't depend on it.