I wrote:
There is a lot of gray area between those extremes, and we have to decide on a case-by-case basis. I can see Debian spending more money than it used to (e.g. to get some of the developer machines back up), but I want to avoid both setting precedent and starting an internal competition for money (which I've written more about in my platform[0]).
[0] happens to be at http://people.debian.org/~sjr/platform.html for the time being.
Simon