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Meanwhile, Debian spends $0 on CI, buildds, website, package distribution. Its all donated by hardware/CDN/hosting partners.

• dns_snek 1y ago
  Zig team didn't want to be beholden to the whims of outside sponsors which is an understandable position.
  • pabs3 1y ago
    They are still dependent on sponsors, just ones that donate cash instead of resources.
    • dns_snek 1y ago
      That's true but I'm pretty sure that the goal is to have a large number of individual sponsors. A handful of large corporate sponsors can later try to use their sponsorship to exert unwanted influence over the project.
• kristoff_it 1y ago
  So in practice money is effectively being donated (donating hw is not free) to be spent on CI, not very differently than in our case, but you're delighted to not know the numbers and like to imagine it's $0. Ok :^)