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Debian Delayed by Disenchanted Developers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the look-at-all-that-alliteration dept.

Torus Kas writes "Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 was supposed to be due by December 4 and development is currently frozen. Apparently the saga was triggered by disenchantment towards funding of $6,000 for each of the 2 release managers to work full-time in order to speed up the development. Many unpaid developers simply put off Debian work to work on something else."

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  1. You work for free, or... by Ice+Wewe · · Score: 1, Redundant
    "Many unpaid developers simply put off Debian work to work on something else."

    Please, correct me if I'm wrong... but isn't the whole point of Open Source to contribute code for the betterment of the community? Which, as it happens, means not getting paid to write code. So, unless these unpaid devs have it in writing, --that they were going to be paid for their work-- I don't think they'll get paid.