Linus gets paid to be a BDFL. Pay me enough and I too will sit down and benevolently dictate things all day long. Until then, the world will have to make do with the blast radius.
I'd love to set one up, but I don't think it's enough... That's not the whole story. I bet the actual fundraising is a full time job unto itself.
I joined the GitHub Sponsors thing and somwhow got a few sponsors, but it wasn't even close to "quit $DAYJOB and focus on free software" territory. Achieving success here would be a dream come true but even the biggest open source projects aren't making anywhere close to a good individual salary. As the biggest free software project ever, Linux is always the exception.
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Linus gets paid to be a BDFL. Pay me enough and I too will sit down and benevolently dictate things all day long. Until then, the world will have to make do with the blast radius.
He gets paid because there's a foundation set up to direct resources around kernel development, including his compensation.
You can see the fiscal info around that foundation here [0]
I know it's boring paper bullsh*t but this is the sort of thing more people need to set up.
[0] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...
I'd love to set one up, but I don't think it's enough... That's not the whole story. I bet the actual fundraising is a full time job unto itself.
I joined the GitHub Sponsors thing and somwhow got a few sponsors, but it wasn't even close to "quit $DAYJOB and focus on free software" territory. Achieving success here would be a dream come true but even the biggest open source projects aren't making anywhere close to a good individual salary. As the biggest free software project ever, Linux is always the exception.