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> The foundations pay plenty of the kernel developers. Do you mean directly? How many do they pay?

• linuxkerneldev 11y ago
  Full disclosure, I've never asked LF to pay me for my contributions, nor have they offered. None of the people I know who are lk contributors who I've just asked have gotten anything from LF. They have been solicited to pay to attend LF organized conferences.
  • guipsp 11y ago
    This comment is useless without knowing what/how many contributions you have made.
  • geofft 11y ago
    They don't pay contributors in a Patreon- or tip4commit-style scheme; they employ certain core developers. If you are not a subsystem maintainer / lieutenant, you're not going to get a job offer from them. (And even if you are you shouldn't expect one.)
  • fche 11y ago
    "They have been solicited to pay to attend LF organized conferences." That appears to be a big part of the business model of LF.