[CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

Mon Sep 14 13:51:07 UTC 2009
Christoph Maser <cmr at financial.com>

Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 15:11 +0200 schrieb Johnny Hughes:

> However, I am not sure WHY you want to know these things.  We do not
> require anyone to donate to the project to use the software.  We do have
> expenses (like DVDs to hand out, posters to print, rooms to pay for at
> Linux conferences, bandwidth and machines for some services, etc.).  We
> would not spend any donations on anything other than those things or to
> pay developer expenses to maintain hardware and software required to
> produce CentOS (replace a hard drive that fails, buy a network switch,
> replace a bad power supply, pay for bandwidth, etc.)
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes


I want to know it beacause I considered donating but my personal
expectations for transparency are not met. (That does not only apply to
the financial things)


Chris


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