[Xiph-Advocacy] Theora and others complains...

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:30 PM, JorSol <mailing at jorsol.com> wrote:
> > Fundraising will likely never reach the point where we can pay salaries.
>
> Well you have nothing to lose if you try it :-)
> maybe not pay a year of salary... but two or tree months?

Very often all or nothing.

Many of the people whom we know who already have the right skills and
knowledge for serious core work already have good paying jobs that
take a considerable amount of their time.

That we could pay them for a few months is not especially relevant.
Only if we could pay enough to take them full time (at a rate
comparable to their current good pay) as well have strong enough
income to be sure their jobs wouldn't evaporate overnight could we
really get more time out of them.

I think the best bet is to get more companies to realize that the work
Xiph does is important to them and will save them money, and get them
to hire people who can spend at least part of their time working on
Xiph related things.

Part of the challenge in that approach is the same challenges we face
with Vorbis/Theora in the greater marketplace:  People don't want to
invest in these codecs if they have been FUDed to the point where they
believe that they are a patent minefield.