jtd wrote:
On Friday 13 October 2006 18:54, Rony wrote:
I am curious to know, how much money did Linus earn for creating
the kernel
Kudos 10000.00^30
and how much does he earn every year on giving out new
kernels? Rough figures will do.
Gratitude 10000.00^30
He earned money in the past working at Transmeta for debugging their
VM which emulated an x86. Read somewhere it was USD.0.125 million
Hmm. So in reality, he did not earn any money from the sales of the
wonderful piece of software he created for the world, while everyone
down the line is making mega bucks installing, customizing and
maintaining his software. If the same was sponsored by a big foss
supporting institution he would have made money on the software too.
Whatever other benefits he received would have come his way even if he
made world famous closed software. I am not trying to pull down foss but
my point is that since it is for the people, it needs support from large
independent foss promoting institutions that pay good money to
developers such that they can release their software under their own
banner.
Regards,
Rony.
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