[Open-graphics] about kerneltrap annouce

[Timothy Miller]

On 2/28/06, Nicolas Boulay <nico at seul.org> wrote:
> If Traversal is a kind of "support" for the OG project, it's like the Mozilla
> Foundation for Firefox.
>
> Maybe if Traversal is called a "Foundation"  and not a "compagny",it could be
> more clear for every body what is the goal of Traversal. ("Traversal
> Foundation" ?)

Foundations are usually non-profit.  What businesses partner with
non-profit organizations?

I want Traversal to have growth in mind.  This kind of growth would
give us more and more ability to develop a more diverse array of
FOSS-friendly products.

As with anyone who starts a company, I'm doing what I want.  It just
so happens that what I want is freedom and more FOSS-friendly
hardware.  No harm in applying capitalism to that.

>
> I just remember that the mozilla foundation have some humain ressouce (10
> people) so Traversal could copy the same kind of organisation.
>
> Because, it's about hardware, we (the FOSS communauty) could understand that
> you sell your IP to other compagny (not under the GPL licence) and you sell
> cards.
>
> It's the same business model than Trolltech for Qt and MySQL labs for MySQL.
>
> Mozilla Foundation live only with donation from big compagny.
>

We're trying to become self-sufficient.  We prefer to voluntarily do
what the community says than to be forced into doing what our
financiers dictate.  Of course, with business relationships, we'll
make some compromises, but we can choose to make those which don't
hurt the project.