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Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure
From: Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 17:56:55 -0500
Once upon a time, Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> said:
This may have been an anomaly made possible by early .com $, but I'm pretty sure at one point, companies like VA Research / VA Linux employed developers who in various cases worked part or full time on the Linux kernel and other Open Source projects "as their job".
The vast majority of developers of software in a typical Linux distribution are paid to work on it. That's what companies like Red Hat, Canonical, SuSE, and many others do. There's lots of other stuff that's contributed to as a consequence of their job. When I needed software to support DEC Unix features for example (because that's what my company used), I wrote patches and submitted them to OpenSSH, BIND, etc. My company was fine with that (we weren't going to sell software). -- Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
Current thread:
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure, (continued)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Jan Schaumann (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Jeff Shultz (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Jeff Shultz (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Jon Lewis (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Chris Adams (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Tom Beecher (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Chris Adams (Jun 27)
- Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)
- OFFTRACK - Re: 1st Linux Distro [was:Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure] Miles Fidelman (Jun 27)
- Re: OFFTRACK - Re: 1st Linux Distro [was:Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure] Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)
- Re: OFFTRACK - Re: 1st Linux Distro [was:Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure] Eric S. Raymond (Jun 27)