I'll just quote myself: > allowing contributors to focus a more significant portion of their time on GIMP I never said anything about hiring full-time enginee

I'll just quote myself: > allowing contributors to focus a more significant portion of their time on GIMP I never said anything about hiring full-time engineers. Also, there are plenty of people willing to be paid a little less to work on something open-source, and something that they take great pride in. We have to be careful not to take advantage of such people, but some people are in a position where they can afford to earn a little less to do something they love.