Fwd: A question from the Fedora Foundation

[Kenneth Porter]

On Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:23 AM -0500 Synister Syntax 
<synistersyntaxlist at gmail.com> wrote:

>      Although a good solid income for Fedora, will only better the
> project, limiting the community input will kill it.  Its basically
> cutting off your nose to spite your face.  As I answered in the
> survey.  I would donate to Fedora, but I am not so sure I would "pay"
> to be part of a closed door community for something that claims to be
> a community, promoting freedom.

My suggestion for subscription funding is to fund development by the 
foundation, not to limit contributions by those outside of it. The 
foundation will have limited developer capacity. Subscribers get to direct 
that capacity. Everyone else gets to contribute as usual.

The tricky part is organizing it so that volunteer contributions (eg. 
patches) aren't lost or ignored.