[maemo-community] individuals being able to join Ovi store

[From: quim.gil at nokia.com]

> Please see original communications below.  The subject is "how can indiduals
> without a business affiliation sell on Ovi?".  Currently they are bing rejected:
>
> http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34661
>
> Can we encourage a broadening of policy?  Should we?

Answer before jumping to the plane to Copenhagen' Maemo Developer Days: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=380253#post380253

Let's continue the discussion about OSS & Ovi wherever you prefer but one maemo.org place is enough.

--
Quim Gil 
open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia

> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Valerio Valerio" <vdv100 at gmail.com>
> To: "Randall Arnold" <texrat at ovi.com>
> Subject: Re: individuals being able to join Ovi store
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:22:27 +0000
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Randall Arnold
> <texrat at ovi.com> wrote:
>
> I'm starting this on the council list because I think we should champion the
> cause... but I'm okay with this moving to the Community list at any time.
>
> I really believe we need to address the issue of individual developers being
> unable to to sell through Ovi without being incorporated.  One of the reasons I
> started the LinkedIn group maemo daemons was to explore the idea of a loose
> consortium setup for this  purpose.
>
>
> Oh, I thought if you pay the 50 € you can sell things as a individual, does that
> changed ? I've friends selling things through OVI (S60) and they aren't a legal
> identity, maybe it varies from country to country.
>
> Anyway this should be moved to the community list, you've my support ;).
>
> Thanks for catch this issue.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Valério Valério
>
> http://www.valeriovalerio.org
>
>
>  
>
>
> I'm no expert in this area but I will definitely facilitate what I can, if
> there's a way to resolve this with some sort of collective.
>
> Latest thread on the subject:
> http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=379852#post379852
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Randall (Randy) Arnold
> maemo.org community council
>
>
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