[CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 19:29:00 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> 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.

What you explained certainly increases (if that's possible), the
respect and appreciation I have for the CentOS developers.



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