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linexer2016 wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 5:17 pm Well thank you Adrian for (as Jerry said) your excellent and accurate response. Again, I thought carefully before penning my question as I did not want to appear ungrateful in any way for the stellar work you all clearly do. To get your reply then is appreciated and clarifying something that I had long thought (even in passing) about when it comes to Linux generally. As those linked articles suggest, there are probably some in the overall fraternity that do derive some compensation and again, I don't begrudge those people. As far as you MX Developers, all I can say is thank you so very much for your great work in delivering and maintaining a truly excellent distribution.

Adrian wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:55 pm We are all volunteers, nobody is compensated. We did purchase some hardware for testing, compiling packages, coding, but nobody is here for handouts.
We paid a bounty for systemd-shim when we needed help and donated some funds to Xfce and possible other similar projects that presently escape me.

We use free software that other people put a lot of effort in for free most of them, it would make no sense for us to ask to be paid, all the donations go for domain names, server bandwidth, websites, etc, not salaries.

uncle mark wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:18 am

Adrian wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:55 pm We are all volunteers, nobody is compensated. We did purchase some hardware for testing, compiling packages, coding, but nobody is here for handouts.
We paid a bounty for systemd-shim when we needed help and donated some funds to Xfce and possible other similar projects that presently escape me.

We use free software that other people put a lot of effort in for free most of them, it would make no sense for us to ask to be paid, all the donations go for domain names, server bandwidth, websites, etc, not salaries.

What about Jerry's boat payment?