On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:39:06PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > steef wrote: > - From his website: > > Key people from Debian are paid for their work on Debian (see here) > > and for this reason do no longer represent community interests but > > the commercial interests of their investors. > > That's plainly not true. Two release managers were paid for one month > each last year (causing controversy). They were paid by money from > debian's project leader and they are no longer paid. I can't see any > indication that they are or ever were following commercial interests of > any kind.
Actually, they were paid using money donated for the express purpose of hiring the release managers for a month. The initiative was the DPL's idea, and I imagine he may have donated some money, but he wasn't the only one contributing, nor were general project funds used. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
