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Commit 09cbba46 authored by Sébastien Blin's avatar Sébastien Blin
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faq: re-write how can SFL afford to give Jami away for free

Change-Id: I2bc92ec1574c873cf7e6dcbeb143887391f6323b
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......@@ -203,12 +203,24 @@ Jami also uses an algorithm to change the consumption depending of the
quality of the link. So, the bitrate can have a minimum of 200 Kbit/s
and maximum of 6 Mbit/s.
How can SFL afford to give Jami away for free? How does/will SFL make money off Jami?
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Summary: ethical company, they will make money supporting managed Jami
solutions for organizations; their main source of income is elsewhere;
all Jami code is GPLv3+; etc. etc.
How can Savoir-Faire Linux (SFL) afford to give Jami away for free? How does/will SFL make money off Jami?
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[Savoir-Faire Linux](https://savoirfairelinux.com/) (SFL) is a consulting company with some R&D projects.
Jami is a GPLv3+ project and this will not change. Savoir-Faire Linux already sells services
for several fields of expertise (hosting, developing websites and applications, embedded
software, etc). Jami is financed several ways:
+ [Donations](https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=MGUDJLQZ4TP5W)
+ Customization contracts
+ Services for other projects
+ Visibility
+ R&D
+ https://jami.biz
+ As a distributed system, Jami incurs very low costs by design
+ Opt-in collection of anonymized statistics might be added in the future to better understand
Jami usage; however, no personal data will be collected.
Account management
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