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by Angsuman Chakraborty.
Original Post: Apache going corporate and end the volunteer model?
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Why am I not surprised?
Paying for the full-time staff requires fund raising, and the executive director must handle the challenge of retaining the ASF's independence while raising funds from individuals and companies, Behlendorf said. Currently donations to the ASF are random, he added.
Deja vu anyone? What the proponents of Open Source Software fail to realize is that nothing is really free. OSS developers contribute their time, time which they could otherwise have devoted to earn or spend with their family. And they can devote the time because they are gainfully employed. OSS is hosted on servers, which are to ...