Hey, On 07/05/14 11:04, Bastien Guerry wrote: > Interesting read: http://www.ssh.com/blog/makesyoubleed > > Here is an excerpt: > > The OpenBSD project leader, Theo De Raadt, is concerned about the > lack of funding from the industry. In his own words: "I think that > contributions should have come first from the vendors, secondly from > the corporate users, and thirdly from individual users. But the > response has been almost entirely the opposite, with almost a 15 to > 1 dollar ratio in favor of the little people.” OpenBSD is so > underfunded that it almost shutdown because it had difficulty > covering just the electrical expenses for the project. > > Of course, OpenSSL is exceptional in being so critical to Internet, > not all FLOSS projects are. But my bet is that the pattern of having > individual users donating more than corporate users and vendors is a > general one, for many FLOSS projects out there. >
I am surprised by this ratio, I thought companies donate more. Maybe they do it using different channels? I think large projects are often funded by companies in echange for some services (Firefox - Google relationship?) Also companies often donate full-time developers to projects. I think companies have more money in general - maybe they don't know how to use it for FOSS? jarek ps. sorry for duplicate, I didn't send it to the list last time. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://lists.librefunding.org/listinfo/discussion
