Comments on: GNOME and sponsors http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2006/10/11/gnome-and-sponsors/ Dave Neary's view of the world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:22:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: pinky http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2006/10/11/gnome-and-sponsors/comment-page-1/#comment-393 pinky Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2006/10/11/gnome-and-sponsors/#comment-393 I'm using GNOME for many years and really love GNOME. But their is one question which was always in my mind: What makes all this companies a member of the GNOME Foundation and why are they supporting GNOME?<p/>Are they just member who pay from time to time some money and sponsor some events? Are they developing GNOME software? And why do they do it? Why supporting GNOME and not any other Free Software project? Just for self-promotion? Do they use GNOME in their company?<p/>I have all this questions because I wonder why GNOME has so many supporter from the IT industrie but you can't see that they making GNOME better. For example if they also use GNOME i ask myself how they manage their software projects? I don't know good software engineering software (e.g. UML software, project planning,...). By all this big software comapnies behind GNOME you could think that they will develop such software for GNOME or sponsor such development. I’m using GNOME for many years and really love GNOME. But their is one question which was always in my mind: What makes all this companies a member of the GNOME Foundation and why are they supporting GNOME?

Are they just member who pay from time to time some money and sponsor some events? Are they developing GNOME software? And why do they do it? Why supporting GNOME and not any other Free Software project? Just for self-promotion? Do they use GNOME in their company?

I have all this questions because I wonder why GNOME has so many supporter from the IT industrie but you can’t see that they making GNOME better. For example if they also use GNOME i ask myself how they manage their software projects? I don’t know good software engineering software (e.g. UML software, project planning,…). By all this big software comapnies behind GNOME you could think that they will develop such software for GNOME or sponsor such development.

]]> By: Dave Neary http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2006/10/11/gnome-and-sponsors/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Dave Neary Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2006/10/11/gnome-and-sponsors/#comment-394 Hi pinky,<p/>Motivations vary - for some companies, it's because GNOME is part of their commercial product line (Novell, RedHat, Sun, Canonical). For others, they use the platform (Nokia, Palmsource). Others (Imendio, OpenedHand) are companies who participate in the greater GNOME community, make money out of writing GNOME-based software and simply want to give back. And finally (HP, IBM, Intel) some companies are simply investing in the long-term health of the free software desktop, either because they support, or believe it's strategic for their company.<p/>And just because a company supports GNOME doesn't mean they don't support other projects too - IBM, for example, supports Firefox, Linux, Eclipse, Apache and more, HP sponsor KDE, GNOME and Debian among others. And Google's been supporting everyone recently.<p/> Hi pinky,

Motivations vary – for some companies, it’s because GNOME is part of their commercial product line (Novell, RedHat, Sun, Canonical). For others, they use the platform (Nokia, Palmsource). Others (Imendio, OpenedHand) are companies who participate in the greater GNOME community, make money out of writing GNOME-based software and simply want to give back. And finally (HP, IBM, Intel) some companies are simply investing in the long-term health of the free software desktop, either because they support, or believe it’s strategic for their company.

And just because a company supports GNOME doesn’t mean they don’t support other projects too – IBM, for example, supports Firefox, Linux, Eclipse, Apache and more, HP sponsor KDE, GNOME and Debian among others. And Google’s been supporting everyone recently.

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