On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:19:32 +0100, Pete van der Spoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> We don't have any use for money right now. What we have mostly just >> sits in a bank account getting slowly devalued by inflation. So >> fund raising exercises aren't really a good idea. > Oh. Okay at least I don't have to feel bad about using Debian and > not contributing, but I have to say I find this very strange. Surely > Debian has developers that would love to spend more time working on > Debian than on their day-jobs, but don't do so because they need to > pay the rent etc? Can we sustain paying salaries for about a 1000 people so they work on Debian? Where does the money come from? How do we handle the increased pressure on NM as more people clamour to join Debian as a means of getting paid whenever the job market is in a down turn? manoj -- Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise" Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C