Lanny Marcus wrote:
The $ the project receives goes for hardware and network connectivity.
That is not true.
Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use to do things on and with are on machines that we ( developers, centos team and contributors ) pay for, manage and run ourselves. CentOS does not subsidise or pay for any of it.
This also includes our network bills, phone bills for support calls and conf calls that we are sometimes part of and any other overhead.