Adding a page for companies offering commercial support
Scott Wheeler
wheeler at kde.org
Wed Apr 16 18:38:03 CEST 2003
Quoting Daniel Molkentin <molkentin at kde.org>:
> A company qualifies by either contributing to KDE on a regular basis or by
> having successfully done a project incorporating the developer community
> (i.e. work together with application maintainers).
Another thing to consider is what you're willing to call a "company". There
are a lot of KDE folks that do some sort of contracting, but I think it's
probably useful to distinguish between i.e. KDAB and "Wheeler & Co., Inc."
;-)
I don't know the laws in a lot of countries, but something like actually being
recognized as a company rather than just a freelancer might be useful for
that. Potentially you could even maintain a list of "companies" and "private
consultants", but that's up to you.
Also the downside to all of this is that it will increase competition between
KDE contributors. I think this is a reasonable risk, but I thought I'd just
throw it out for consideration.
Cheers,
-Scott
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