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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?

Jerry3904 wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:20 am @Adrian @dolphin_oracle What would you think of putting a version of Adrian's response on the website > About us?

dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:44 am

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?

I thought it sank?!

Seriously though, all funds are held by a not-for-profit corp we set up specifically to manage MX Linux's needs. We are not tax exempt, but the not-for-profit status allows the project to own itself. certain dev team members act as directors.

Jerry3904 wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:20 am @Adrian @dolphin_oracle What would you think of putting a version of Adrian's response on the website > About us?

Adrian wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 2:06 pm

Jerry3904 wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:20 am @Adrian @dolphin_oracle What would you think of putting a version of Adrian's response on the website > About us?

I think it could be in the donation sections since people have a right to know how the funds they donate are used.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:44 am

Adrian wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:55 pm We are all volunteers, nobody is compensated.

all funds are held by a not-for-profit corp we set up specifically to manage MX Linux's needs. We are not tax exempt, but the not-for-profit status allows the project to own itself. certain dev team members act as directors.