On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Pete van der Spoel wrote: > > We don't have any use for money right now. What we have > > mostly just sits in a bank account getting slowly devalued by > > inflation. So fund raising exercises aren't really a good idea. > > Oh. Okay at least I don't have to feel bad about using Debian and not > contributing, but I have to say I find this very strange. Surely Debian has > developers that would love to spend more time working on Debian than on > their day-jobs, but don't do so because they need to pay the rent etc? We don't have a lot of money; certainly nowhere near that much. We just don't have any significant expenses either. The project doesn't consume money for normal operation. > Or is the whole Ubuntu thing (where I understand Mark Shuttleworth has hired > a large number of the senior Debian developers) considered to be the > solution to this problem? Hiring developers away from a project, so that they no longer spend time on it, is not normally considered a good solution. > And what about Debian itself making a donation to for example FSF Europe? It's been proposed before, hasn't happened yet. Doesn't look likely to happen; spending Debian money is very difficult. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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