On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:00:28PM +0300, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: > As for my definition of healthy, it is simple: a healthy organization is > not likely to quit its activities, mainly due to financial problems, in > the next 10 years. If the "likely" is to be defined, then a healthy > organization has less chances to quit in the next 10 years than 70% of all > the same domain organizations that exist today. Oh wow, 10 years is a really long time in the world of community driven open source projects. I don't think anybody will ever be able to answer that question. That said, Gentoo definitely isn't driven by finances - what drives Gentoo is a great community and a bunch of developers working their butts off on a distribution they love and care about. > > As for the next question, I am not sure that it is worth answering it, > possibly there is a better way to use your time, but you may still find it > interesting to know what a common user may be thinking about. > > Are there any plans to make a business from Gentoo, any time in the > future? Are there people who work on Gentoo full time? Does the profit > from the Gentoo Store cover some visible part of the Gentoo expenses? Gentoo have no plans of making a business from our work. We've sorta tried that in the past with Gentoo Games but the developers really wanted a non-profit organisation.
As for what the money from the Gentoo store and donations etc. is used for, that is controlled by the Trustees. I believe there's work being done to establish "event kits" so we'd have everything needed for conferences readibly available. There's also money spend on infrastructure things (domain renewals, assorted hardware etc). And while on this topic I should really thank all our great sponsors providing bandwidth, mirrors, servers, development boxes and so on. As far as I know there's no developers that's paid to work on Gentoo as their primary job. I believe there's a few developers who have some paid time to work on open source projects (like Gentoo) though as part of their contracts. > > As you can see, the questions are provoked by the news I heard about > Ubuntu, Debian, and Mandriva. > Hope this answered most of your questions. Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
