On 3/17/20 9:45 PM, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > As a former Outreachy intern myself (2015) I can tell you that it the > stipend has helped me to invest time to find my way around Debian, time > during which otherwise I would have had to earn a living elsewhere and > would never have gotten involved further with Debian.
With all due respect, but I find this a bit pretentious. The vast majority of people who are getting involved with open source are initially not being paid for that. It took me at least 10 years until someone came around and started giving me money for what I am doing and from all the open source folks that I know personally, I would argue that it's the same. You also don't need much to do programming. I started with a C64 from my brother because I didn't even have my own computer and we didn't have an x86 machine before 1997 which also belonged to my parents and not me. I don't think the majority of people in the FOSS community can claims that they received a sponsorship early on to be able to join the community. On the contrary, most people will have probably spent a fair amount of money and their own leisure time to get things done, Linus Torvalds being one of the most prominent ones who didn't even have the money to pay for his first i386 machine in full but rather had to finance it through a loan. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
