Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch funding models, again

[Robin Green]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:17:59PM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
> > This turn of events again provoked me to think again about funding
> > free sof= tware maintenance, and gnu arch in particular.
> >
> > Some people might be paid to do arch maintenance as a small proportion
> > of t= heir job, but if that even happens now (I don't know if it
> > does), it obviously i= s not yet covering integration/review/release
> > work associated with the official g= nu arch release.
> 
> Thanks, but the problem isn't one of funding.

Obviously there are other problems here, but my point was, we don't appear
to have a reliable gnu arch maintainer any more, which is what some users
would like to see. _One_ way of fixing that - in fantasy land! ;) - would be
to pay someone to do it full-time. (Of course paying people doesn't
_guarantee_ that they will perform as required, but most people don't get
away with not doing with what they're supposed to for very long in the
wage-labour system, for very obvious reasons.)

-- 
Robin

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