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Re: A market perspective on the impact of dunc-tanc



On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:41:40AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> writes:
> > Traditionally no one is paid to do Free software work.
> 
> This of course, is simply (and obviously) not true.
> 
Hi Miles,
I guess I agree that this statement is false. There are more than a few
differnt types of people who work on Free software.
Free software for-profit businesses
	Ximian, Gnome, Ubuntu, Linutop, Suse, Redhat
Free software not-for-profit projects
	Skoelinux, OSDL ?
Free software volunteer projects
	Debian, OpenSuse, Fedora

And people can be paid to work on any of these projects and people can
choose to volunteer to work on these as well. But what percentage of
contributions to Debian are from volunteers vs people being paid? I
think my statement was meant to say that most contributions to Debian
are by people who are not getting paid. Would that be closer to a fact?

Cheers,
Kev
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