jtd wrote:
On Friday 13 October 2006 18:54, Rony wrote:
I am curious to know, how much money did Linus earn for creating the kernel
Kudos 10000.00^30
and how much does he earn every year on giving out new kernels? Rough figures will do.
Gratitude 10000.00^30
He earned money in the past working at Transmeta for debugging their VM which emulated an x86. Read somewhere it was USD.0.125 million
Hmm. So in reality, he did not earn any money from the sales of the wonderful piece of software he created for the world, while everyone down the line is making mega bucks installing, customizing and maintaining his software. If the same was sponsored by a big foss supporting institution he would have made money on the software too.
Whatever other benefits he received would have come his way even if he made world famous closed software. I am not trying to pull down foss but my point is that since it is for the people, it needs support from large independent foss promoting institutions that pay good money to developers such that they can release their software under their own banner.
Regards,
Rony.
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