brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

[Krzysztof Klimonda]

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:33 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:12 +0200, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote:
> > I don't see proprietary applications (add-ons? what do you mean) being
> > demotivating for our community developers unless whole Ubuntu makes a
> > switch to promote them and FOSS applications suffer in the process. 
> 
> By promote do you mean promote their use or their funding? Having a
> mechanism for selling proprietary software and not a likewise mechanism
> for foss software is the thing I'm still weary about in the USC.

Both types of applications should be promoted in the USC, I don't think
that being closed source is a stigma of sort if the application is well
written - i.e. it uses all the libraries we provide and not some antique
technologies.

But yes, I believe that when we give users an option to pay for
proprietary software we should also give them a way to pay for the open
one. That's not going to be easy as some of the earlier talks about this
subject has shown but I was under the impression that the idea is still
being worked on.


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Krzysztof Klimonda <kklimonda at ubuntu.com>
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