[Mediawiki-l] Paid Support (was Apple's Wiki Server brings WYSIWYG to wiki)

Sun Aug 13 17:16:45 UTC 2006

At 18:48 -0400 9/8/06, Brion Vibber wrote:
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>Lane, Ryan wrote:
>>  This makes me wonder, why not offer paid support? Why not charge a
>>  yearly fee for regular support, and an hourly or bounty fee for
>>  programming support (that is if the programming support also goes in
>>  line with the direction of the software, WYSIWYG for example)?
>
>We don't have the resources for it right now, but it's an option for 
>the future
>which gets occasionally kicked around.
>
>It may or may not require some corporate restructuring; can the non-profit
>operate such stuff? cf Mozilla etc.
>
>-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>

Remember CYGNUS?

gcc and the rest of the GNU suite was developed by Richard Stallman 
et al, but Cygnus made money from support. Surely that is the model?

Gordo

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