On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Daniel de Kok wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Bill Quinn <bill.quinn at linuxit.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> At LinuxIT we offer commercial support for CentOS from business hours to >>> fully managed. We would welcome the opportunity to have details of our >>> offerings and our logo on centos.org and on the wiki, especially if we >>> could put something back into the community. >> >> I think it would be useful to have an alphabetic consultant list very >> much like this: >> http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/consultants.html > > We do have to be careful that the list does not bitrot, and that there is a > balance of big and smaller companies. > > The reason why we currently do not have a list is because in the past it was > seen as a way to monetize that list and I think that still is blocking any > progress. > > The problem with asking money to appear on the list is that you loose the > balance of all players in the market and you are advertising those that are > big enough to pay the fee. Indeed, that's one of the reasons why I have never been a real proponent for a paid-for list. Just as CentOS helps leveraging start-ups by avoiding support fees if they don't need upstream's support, I think we should stimulate a fair market for CentOS consultants, both big and small. An additional problem I see with this, is that it makes the line between CentOS as a non-profit project and CentOS as an enterprise selling advertising space very thin. That said, I am not putting hours a day into CentOS (just some occasional Yum/Python hacking). And I think the opinions of developers who do pour that much time into CentOS should be considered with more weight. Take care, Daniel