Is it worth forming a "collective"? [Was Can't resolve fedoralegacy.org]

[Jason Giglio]

I know my company was happy paying Red Hat about $1000/year for the 
servers we had under their old system.  Then they increased their prices 
by 1000% when RHEL came out.

We paid progeny for their legacy updates before fedora legacy formed up, 
but their stupid system of downloading over authenticated HTTP with curl 
makes it very tedious to use, so we use fedora legacy on the few boxes 
we have left running older versions.

As for a collective, you would have to make it have a corporate image, 
otherwise most companies will never pay it money for support.  I know I 
can't go to my boss and say "Hey a bunch of guys are getting together to 
pay some guy to try to make legacy packages faster, can I have $500 a 
month (more than RHEL would cost us)?"

And I consider us pretty open minded when it comes to contracting open 
source services.

-Jason

Stuart Low wrote:
> Hmm,
> 
> With all the Fedora Legacy related issues lately (the project is dead,
> the website is dead, the server is down etc. etc.) I can't help but
> wonder if perhaps it would be worth considering forming a "collective"
> of companies who use the services the most to contribute a monthly
> amount to pay someone to do ensure everything was kept up to date?
> 
> In Australia it'd be possible to hire a full time maintainer for ~40-50K
> per year. That translates to ~$4.2K per month on the upper end. If it
> was possible to have 10 companies commit to $500/month the longevity of
> the project could be maintained for all distributions. In addition the
> resolution time on issues could be massively decreased.
> 
> I don't know if Jesse would be interested in being paid for his work (I
> believe he has a fulltime job elsewhere?) but it seems to me that many
> users of the project seem to want support for all distributions, a fast
> resolution time yet they are unwilling to pay or contribute a thing to
> it. Clearly Jesse is a pretty busy guy (understandable since he has to
> eat) and the project at this point in time doesn't have the time or
> resources to maintain all the distributions users want.
> 
> Just a thought. :)
> 
> Stuart Low
> Manager
> 
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:58 -0500, John Gotts wrote:
> 
>>Anybody feel like giving Jesse Keating a call to ask him what's up?
>>
>>John
>>
> 
> 
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