[Qgis-psc] AGM: plugins vote

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 4/10/20 5:16 PM, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
>> I've been thinking about a mixed mode for a long time already. And it is
>> hard, with not so much successful role models...
>>
>> In my personal opinion a FOSS project should stay a non corporate
>> community. The business itself should stay outside of the project (in my
>> opinion). Individuals from the corporate side off course are welcome!!!
>> And corporations should be able to make money WITH the project but not
>> FROM the project; they should *use* not *own* it.
> I fail to see how anybody might own QGIS. And as I mentioned above, if
> all the companies that invest in QGIS would not have done that, QGIS
> would not be where it is now.

> How do you mean making money FROM the project?

Mmm, this is getting tricky, because it is a grey area.

But for example I think/feel there is a difference of doing something
partly being paid by the project, OR doing things *only* because/when
being paid. A healty company should not rely on the QGIS project only,
it should rely on it's customers, asking them to do things with QGIS. A
company should (in my opinion) not be paid directly by the project. Only
individuals should (and if they are part of a company: fine).
The company should not be there BECAUSE there is a FOSS project. It
should exist working WITH the project

Another example: adding something only because a paid customer is paying
for it, but forgetting to discuss what it means (responsiblity-wise and
functional) for the average user. Or forgetting about adding
documentation at qgis.org (but only blogging about it in private sites).

The alternative are companies which stand in front of QGIS, fighting
against too much detailed additions which are NOT useful for most users
(yet... I know it is a grey world, a lot of things I did/asked were
because I needed it...).

Again: we are doing great!

About 'owning' a project: if a company has so much influence in a
project (because, indeed it could be: invested so much time in it) that
the company can 'force' stuff into it, I would talk about 'owning'...
Again this is not black and white, but there are rumors about additions
being paid by big pockets like Google or USA gov adding stuff which is
now more or less orphaned.

And again: people are here working (hard!) with different "agenda's"
which IS OK, as long as we stay polite to each other.

/me going under my rock again... as I do not know if this is productive...

Regards and have a nice weekend,

Richard