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List:       userlinux-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Discuss] ISV's and Licensing
From:       Bruce Perens <bruce () perens ! com>
Date:       2003-12-12 17:14:52
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Peter Vandenabeele wrote:

>Would that be something along the lines of:
>"you need 2 engineers that pass the Certification Exam" to
>certifiy in a certain Category ?
>  
>
I don't want to rule out 1-man shops. Certification of staff would be 
one part, there would also have to be some agreement on service vendor 
policies like returning work done on the Debian-based core to Debian on 
a timely basis, etc.

>Seems a reasonable start. You may still need to certify geography:
>some shops can realistically say they offer support over the whole of
>India or EU or USA or ...; for others, that would be quite unrealistic
>to execute.
>  
>
Mostly for purposes of referring service calls. Designing an algorithm 
to do that fairly isn't trivial.

> I would like to see the decision forming process more as a consensus
>
I think we will be able to achieve consensus on most technical issues. 
There will be some things that should be voted upon, mostly 
organizational issues. We need to be careful about design-by-committee.

    Thanks

    Bruce


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