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Re: Questions from the Subversion 1.6 Preview event in Berlin

From: Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz_at_apache.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:29:43 -0800

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com> wrote:
> (By the way, we've not had a really good plan for what to do with
> donations to the SVN Corp.  We'd probably get a lot more donations if we
> did; it might work for SVN Corp to fund development, just would have to
> be thought through carefully...)

Besides reiterating my belief that SVN Corp shouldn't even exist at
all as a separate entity, I would be opposed to having SVN Corp
funding development. My experience with open-source organizations
trying to fund development has been a big fat zero with lots of
negative follow-on effects for the community. -- justin

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