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Open Source Payday

Posted by timothy on from the and-ya-takes-yer-chances dept.

itwbennett writes "The recent Slashdot discussion on the open source community's attitude on profits neglected an important point: 'no profits' doesn't mean 'no money.' There are plenty of open source not-for-profit organizations that take in millions of dollars in order to pursue their public-minded missions, and some pay their employees handsomely. Brian Proffitt combed through the latest publicly available financial information on 18 top FLOSS organizations to bring you the cold, hard numbers."

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  1. Re:Does the OS community really hate RH? by ix42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't hate RH. I like RH. I'm kind of annoyed with RHEL because people keep using ancient bug-ridden libraries and blaming me.

    I've lost track of the number of times I've had this conversation:

    Them: Foo doesn't work. Fix it. Fix it now.
    Me: That was fixed upstream in library bar 7 years ago.
    Them: We use RHEL4, and our policy won't let us install 3rd party library update packages.
    Me: So you have an expensive contract. I'm sure RedHat will provide an official patch.
    Them: Actually, we use CentOS4.
    Me: . o O (Go buy a RHEL contract, you cheapskates. Or change your idiotic policy.)

    But that's not RedHat's fault.