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Interesting that none of the recipients will be actual projects that Red Hat is built upon. No donation to the Linux Kernel, nothing to Gnome, nothing to GNU at
by pilom 15y ago
Interesting that none of the recipients will be actual projects that Red Hat is built upon. No donation to the Linux Kernel, nothing to Gnome, nothing to GNU at all, etc. I think that some people might be upset about that but I view it as extremely forward thinking. These other Free Software supporting organizations provide support to the community in ways that are much more difficult to quantify than simply lines of code. Without them the "free/libre" community would have a much harder time being taken seriously.
- cagenut 15y agoredhat "donates" to all those project you mentioned in the form of payroll
- shuzchen 15y agoTo further clarify this point, if you look at the reports here, you'll find that RedHat is the largest corporate contributor to both the kernel and to gnome: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/28/gnome-census/ http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/28/gnome-census/
- bkor 15y agoRed Hat employs various people who seem to solely work on GNOME related technology. Red Hat further sponsors the GNOME conference, and sponsors the GNOME foundation annually (seperate from just conferences). Giving more money to GNOME: always welcome, but they already do loads.