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Cold Cash

According to itWire:

A group of senior developers from the Debian GNU/Linux project have decided to raise funds to pay volunteers who work on the project in order that releases can be made more frequently. . . .

The [leaders of the initiative] said what they were trying to do was to set up an experimental project to try and find ways of funding Debian development.

They stressed that [it] was not endorsed by Debian, and Debian did not exercise any control over how Dunc operated. It was "not paying for servers or bandwidth, or reimbursing expenses and flight costs, but actually paying people to sit down and do useful Debian work rather than some other day job."

The article did not say where the money will come from. Gee - maybe they could collect from people who find the product useful. But we need a name -- now about "market'?

Link from Tony Healy, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Innovation.

posted by James DeLong @ 8:47 AM | Software

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