Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

They're interesting cases. Google is determining the direction that
the Web evolves, thus the direction Firefox development has to go, and
they're the main ones paying Mozilla (for now). Hardware manufacturers
determine how computers evolve, and thus how Linux is developed to
work well on them, and maybe the Linux Foundation gets some funding
from the computer hardware companies (is this info public?), or at
least many code contributions from Intel and the like.

The end of [1] has a high-level breakdown of funding sources.  [2] lists
its corporate members and [3] has the fee structure (towards the end).

[1] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/linux-foundation-annual-report-2024
[2] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
[3]
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/LF%20Brand%20Assets/lf_member_benefits_101424a.pdf

Intel, AMD, Arm, Microsoft, Google, IBM etc contribute code; you can
find them in the kernel’s git history.

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