2014-04-29 12:06 GMT+02:00 Vincent van Ravesteijn:

>  OSS is not what it used to be. Most projects have ways of making money,
> or are supported by companies. Git's maintainer is hired by Google, major
> work on Git is done by GitHub people, KDE has a large investor that allows
> them to hire developers, and so forth..
>

Maybe this applies to big projects, but I fail to see how it applies to
LyX. Also, there are surely different interests amongst coders. Some
developers might have ambitions to code on a professional basis and thus be
"hired", ideally for their pet projects. I certainly don't. I get the money
to pay my rent otherwise, so I am not interested in any commercial
programming.

Jürgen

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