On Sb, 01 mai 21, 10:49:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 01 May 2021 08:57:28 Marco Möller wrote: > > > Hello, > > Do we have for Debian some statistics about who (companies, > > institutions, universities, private volunteers, ...) are contributing > > to Debian, i.e. as package maintainers, admins, maybe Debian specific > > code programmers, and alike? I found the list of the Debian > > Developers, but this is only names not indicating which company > > (money) might be behind the names. Maybe this is summarized in a > > statistics about funding or sponsoring or supporters of the Debian > > project? > > I recently saw statistics about who contributes to the Linux kernel > > (private volunteers summarized as a group vs the 20 most lines of code > > contributing companies by their name), which kind of shows its > > independence (or not) from singular commercial players and am now > > curious if there is some alike data about Debian available. > > Thanks! Marco. > > Since RH went to a per seat fee for support, which it seems has been > succesful at funding RH, and "tainted" the free software scene, the rest > of the distro's have clammed up about financing, and TBT, I don't think > its any of our business to even ask the question.
While I believe it's perfectly fine - and desirable - to have successful commercial enterprises based on FLOSS, transparency in financing is generally a good thing in my opinion, especially when the projects are backed by non-profit organisations (anonymity of donors notwithstanding). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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