Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:28:05 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problems/solutions: voting system & marketing surveys Message-ID: <CAGH67wSdU5DwSd-9Q4z-0Rkh5Btj5eCD8FmMPw9%2B1JQAOjOncQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <slrnj5aslq.7nm.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> References: <slrnj4r99s.28dr.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <20110819154638.GA75879@over-yonder.net> <slrnj5aslq.7nm.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net>
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru> w=
rote:
> Hi Matthew D. Fuller!
>
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:46:38 -0500; Matthew D. Fuller wrote about 'Re: Fr=
eeBSD problems/solutions: voting system & marketing surveys':
>
>>> =A0 In other words, Foundation must act as an intermediate party
>>> =A0 between those who will work and those who will pay for concrete
>>> =A0 tasks set up by e.g. core@ or by user suggestions/need.
>>>
>>> Why it was not done earlier?
>> Actually, it's my understanding that there are significant legal
>> issues which prevent the Foundation from acting in this way (taking
>> targetted donations, acting as an escrow party on specific bounties).
>
> If that is the only issue, there must be workaround for this. Circumventi=
ng
> such legal stoppers for good things is what lawyers are paid for.
>
> But I am from other country and don't know American law, that is task for
> someone living in USA.
>
> The possible solution is: a developer and company agree privately, then
> a company donates needed sum to Foundation, and developer signs contract =
with
> Foundation for the project as usual, just the sum is known to developer a=
s
> befor. Foundation does not need to know anything about developer/company
> relationship here.
>
> At the very last, if that couldn't be solved with Foundation at all, it i=
s
> possible to do alternative solution: a web page (subdomain of freebsd.org=
?)
> where ideas and tasks are sorted by priority, there are listed customers
> and volunteers for each, may be price, and of course contacts: way for th=
em
> to meet and be paid outside
Contract work (what's being described above) can be done through
commercial entities like iXsystems:
http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdsupport .
Thanks!
-Garrett
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