Krita portable.

[Simon Legrand]

Open-source is 'free as in freedom, not free as in free beer'.


On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Cyrille Berger Skott
<cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 Apr 2012, Srikanth Tiyyagura wrote:
>> Can you tell me why funding is needed in open source projects ?
>>
>> I think, Contributors code for free. Then where will we need money ?
>>
>> Just to know the process of developing open source project, I'm asking
>> these questions ?
>
> It is actually untrue that all contributors code for free. Many of them are
> actually paid by companies.
>
> The reason we need money for some kind of work (like windows or Simon's
> usecase) is that there is little free contributor interest for it (keep in
> mind that unpaid contributors works on whatever they want to work on). So if
> there is no incentive for the unpaid contributors to work on those subject,
> you need to find someone who will do it for money.
>
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> Cyrille Berger Skott
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