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Re: Debian statistics about the contributing entities?

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On Sb, 01 mai 21, 10:49:01, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 01 May 2021 08:57:28 Marco Möller wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > Do we have for Debian some statistics about who (companies,
> > institutions, universities, private volunteers, ...) are contributing
> > to Debian, i.e. as package maintainers, admins, maybe Debian specific
> > code programmers, and alike? I found the list of the Debian
> > Developers, but this is only names not indicating which company
> > (money) might be behind the names. Maybe this is summarized in a
> > statistics about funding or sponsoring or supporters of the Debian
> > project?
> > I recently saw statistics about who contributes to the Linux kernel
> > (private volunteers summarized as a group vs the 20 most lines of code
> > contributing companies by their name), which kind of shows its
> > independence (or not) from singular commercial players and am now
> > curious if there is some alike data about Debian available.
> > Thanks! Marco.
> 
> Since RH went to a per seat fee for support, which it seems has been 
> succesful at funding RH, and "tainted" the free software scene, the rest 
> of the distro's have clammed up about financing, and TBT, I don't think 
> its any of our business to even ask the question.

While I believe it's perfectly fine - and desirable - to have successful 
commercial enterprises based on FLOSS, transparency in financing is 
generally a good thing in my opinion, especially when the projects are 
backed by non-profit organisations (anonymity of donors 
notwithstanding).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Debian statistics about the contributing entities? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-05-01 15:10 +0200
  Re: Debian statistics about the contributing entities? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-05-01 16:50 +0200
    Re: Debian statistics about the contributing entities? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-03 08:40 +0200
  Re: Debian statistics about the contributing entities? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-05-01 17:10 +0200
  Re: Debian statistics about the contributing entities? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-03 08:30 +0200

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