Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de> wrote: > Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>> >>>>> marsup <arasu....@gmail.com> writes: >> >>>>> On Jul 21, 6:53 pm, Ivan Shmakov <i...@gray.siamics.net> wrote: >> [???] >> >> -- FSF associate member #7257 >> > By the way what is all about FSF membership number? I am curious to >> > know for learning and contributing to FSF. >> This should be more on-topic for gnu.misc.discuss, so I'm >> cross-posting and setting Followup-To: there. (Beware of the >> troll there, though; for some newsgroups, killfiles are a must.) You've just met one of these trolls. (There are more than one.) >> The idea is to provide funding for the FSF (and thus, partly, >> for the GNU project.) The ???basic??? associate membership is $120 >> per year (or half that price for currently enrolled students.) >> To join, one can use the form at: >> https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf >> To join and ask FSF to thank me for that: >> https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referrer=7257 >> -- >> FSF associate member #7257 > What percentage of collected funds is spend on writing code for the GNU > project and not on fat salaries to the FSF crooks not writing any code > for the GNU project? A lot of the funds will be spent on maintaining GNU infrastructure - premises, servers, and bandwidth all have to be paid for. And yes, "fat salaries" will be paid to "FSF crooks", such as sys-admins, administrative staff, and so on. Few, if any, of these "FSF crooks" will be writing code for a GNU project. > regards, > alexander. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
