On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 10 August 2014 18:53:58 Doug wrote: >> Unless Debian is different from most >> Linux distros, a good portion of the software is written by paid >> developers. I don't know who pays them, but it is nevertheless true. > > I had understood that Debian is in this, as in many things, different from > most Linux distros. Things may get developed at e.g. GSOC, but none-the-less > the developers are not in general paid for their Debian work. (Though they > may be e.g. Ubuntu developers as well.) > > Lisi
Not sure if you've kill-filed me at this point, but -- Most of the code in debian is from upstream. The debian team "just" does a lot of what would be called in the paid world, "Quality Control" and "Integration". (Scare quotes on "just" because that's a huge load of work that gets fed back upstream, benefiting the entire community.) Most, well, more than half, of the upstream is done by paid developers now -- IBM, RedHat, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, et. al., plus a horde of small companies who owe their existence to free/libre and open-source software. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iPva=qn9ykikc94lqjryh0qzvsbjjn1vq27na8gow2...@mail.gmail.com
