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On Saturday, December 3, 2016 1:56:40 PM EST Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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> Well, It does give back some. I know there are times patches are |
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> pushed to gentoo from them. |
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Yes, and they employ a couple current and former devs. At least one quite core |
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> Plus we get financial support from them |
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> via the Google Summer Of Code. It has been pointed out recently that |
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> the majority of our available funds have come from the GSOC. Not only |
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> that, but it also helps us get new developers to work with and further |
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> Gentoo projects. |
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GSoC is controversial. They did not do it for Gentoo 1 year, I think 2015. |
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Also it has lead to a bunch of projects started that are not used. One I am |
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not sure why is not used, euscan, as its highly beneficial. Others seemed to |
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have fallen off rather than become integrated into Gentoo or lived on as |
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projects of their own. I could be wrong on a few, but last I checked that was |
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the case for most. |
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As for the main financial resource for Gentoo that is another thing semi off |
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topic for this list. I may have brought it up on -nfp years ago. In a nutshell |
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unless Gentoo spends money, and has plans to use money to further development. |
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Which in turn benefits others. There is not much motivation for people to |
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donate to Gentoo. |
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There is also the charitable donation and write off aspect. Which they may be |
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able to do. But since Gentoo has never received official 501c6 status or any |
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from the IRS. I am not sure if companies or anyone can actually write off a |
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Gentoo donation. May be moot for individuals, but not for large businesses |
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with stringent accounts and standards to meet. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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