Re: Defining GNOME Market Segments

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

GNOME Friends project...

You bring up an excellent point.  This has not seen the kind of
visbility it should.  It would be nice if our components included as
part of the GNOME desktop a removable menu item for donating to GNOME.
That would be cool.

sri

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 13:24 +0300, Enver ALTIN wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 08:50 +1300, John Williams wrote:
> > > I know this is a very unusual thought: GNOME not only as a desktop
> > and
> > > development platform but also as a market platform, a sort of
> > eBay.
> > > Probably too advanced, right?
> > >
> > > Well, just a thought....
> > A damn fine one, IMHO.  I was thinking about, in every "About" box
> > where
> > it lists the developers, having a link to "Donate to ..." or
> > "Request a
> > feature" etc.
>
> You may certainly bring this question up on the foundation list.
> Actually there is a "GNOME Friends" program, which in turn, is
> targetting the people who really want to contribute, and leaving those
> out who want shopping for features.
>
> I don't know. I wouldn't bring the browser-mode back default even if I
> were paid $1000 for it. "Request a feature" isn't going anywhere good,
> IMHO.
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