On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 02:53:46PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 05:34:49 AM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > > There are also individuals making such donations. > > > > > > That being said, these donations can't be used to pay a Developer for > > > its work in the project. > > That being said, there are certainly developers out there, who are working > on company time, to make contributions to Debian (and other) open source > software. And folks at places that host the work - like the OSU OSL - are > certainly drawing salaries from their parent institutions. I expect a lot > of that work is grant funded. And there are enough free software (excuse me if I prefer that spelling) friendly companies. Redhat pours a lot into Linux kernel development, which makes Debian better; many Canonical employees have been also Debian developers; Freexian [1] has a business model which benefits Debian, yadda, yadda. Then there are those companies selling pre-installed hardware (System76, around here it's Tuxedo). Then more education oriented (Linux hotel, again, around here). It's not for lack of choices. Cheers [1] https://www.freexian.com/ -- t
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