[Osmf-talk] Financing the OSMF

[Paul Norman]

> From: Steve Singer [mailto:steve at ssinger.info]
> Subject: Re: [Osmf-talk] Financing the OSMF
> 
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> What benefits do you see us granting corporate members to entice them to
> donate? If the answer is 'none' then I don't see this as any any
> different than a company clicking on the 'donate' button today outside
> of hardware earmarked donation drive 

Thanks to how corporate accounting and purchasing works, I understand it 
is substantially easier to get a company to sign up to be a member for 
$10k than for them to donate $10k every year, even if they get the exact 
same benefits.