From: Alon Altman (alon_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 01 Apr 2003 - 11:03:48 IDT
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> > Just reading the faq, I thought it was amusing that the in the list
> > of activities that the Amuta will support, there are conferences,
> > teaching, support for open source users, etc. Nowhere is there mentioned
> > any support or sponsering of *the development* of free sw. Is
> > that on purpose?
>
>
> We will support anything that advances Free and Open Sourced Software in
> Israel.
> Obviously, developing is included :-)
>
> The list you are refering to is a list of examples of activities which
> an offical body like an Amuta was needed to support, as opposed to
> development of software where I don't think we saw or see any need for
> an official body.
.. unless ofcourse you get public funding (let's say 1,000,000 NIS) and
then you can fund open-source development. Maybe consider turning to
companies for funding development as well.
Alon
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