[CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

[Scott Silva]

on 3/27/2011 5:36 AM Ian Murray spake the following:
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>> What makes you think CentOS is not willing to be commercially sponsored?
>> (Or only work developing CentOS?)
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>> I would LOVE to be able to do CentOS as my only job.
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>> No one that we know of is willing to pay a full time salary for 1 or 2
>> or 3 people to develop CentOS.  If they would pay for it, we would
>> likely do it.
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>> They might be willing for us to let their current employees do some
>> CentOS things ... but not willing to pay for CentOS development.
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> Sorry, that was just my impression from previous posts. I guess I have that wrong. Maybe I am confusing the reluctance to take donations at the moment with commercial sponsorship. Thanks for correcting me.
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> Couple of questions, then....
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> What is the average current time commitment per week, i.e. man hours that is currently volunteered by the core developers?
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> What would that need to increase to, to significantly reduce release times (which I think was the overall goal)?
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> What would the *market rate* be for the skills required? Just to give a rough figure to work with and shouldn't be related to any particular person's current day job.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Ian.
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A good linux sysadmin in the US makes from 60K to 80K USD a year... High level
programmers a bit more... So with benefits, and other support costs... How
about a half million to three quarters of a million a year to commercialize
CentOS... In US dollars... Get your checkbook out...

Anyone know someone who can front at least 2 years working capital to get
started and productive?