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$645020 is good for what? 4 jr developers or 3 slightly experienced developers, working full time on numpy for 2 years?

• oh_sigh 9y ago
  What's your point with this post?
  • xj9 9y ago
    free/open/libre software takes time and skill to create. more companies should probably be paying some kind of support or at least donating since they are no doubt using it to extract some kind of value from the market.
    • oh_sigh 9y ago
      Ok. It came off as if 'this measly sum means nothing'.
    • et2o 9y ago
      This is a charitable foundation that gives scientific grants, not a company.
      • xj9 9y ago
        my point stands. more public money should be going to free/libre projects too.
• jacquesm 9y ago
  What if that's what it takes? And besides that, it is $645020 more than they had otherwise, that's serious dough. (Though not serious in terms of the value created with Numpy but that is the nature of open source.)
• deleted 9y ago
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• phonon 9y ago
  It's a heck of a lot more than Instagram donated to Django! (Around $25k/y ! ) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx5WQjXLlq8&feature=youtu.be&t=3650 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx5WQjXLlq8&feature=youtu.be...
• bra-ket 9y ago
  20 graduate students
• glup 9y ago
  I think this is a great question---academia is still finding out how expensive software development can be. From my experience in the UC system, 35-50% of this will go to grant administration overhead. After factoring in benefits, my guess would be one senior and one junior developer for 2 years–if those developers are willing to take rather large pay cuts to work on a public good / neat project (thankfully a lot are!).