>It doesn't matter how indirect it is. The important fact is the programmer is getting paid for their work. That makes it professional work. Do kernel contribu

>It doesn't matter how indirect it is. The important fact is the programmer is getting paid for their work. That makes it professional work. Do kernel contributions getting paid by the Linux foundation count? What if the offending company is donating to the Linux foundation? >I think there should be an exception for free and open source software though. We have lots of free software designed to be used by people... The chilling effect would simply be too great. I understand distinguishing between publishing and use. But we're talking about use here. The person responsible for the use of the bad program is usually not the contributor. So there's no chilling effect here?