Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

In comp.os.linux.misc Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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

I see, I went to their members page before, but there's more to see
in a Web browser with Javascript support.

But memberships don't seem to add up to much of the $125,120,830
recorded as received from "membership & donations" in the annual
report.

Silver
1366 * $20,000 (best case, if all members had >5,000 employees)
$27,320,000

Gold
12 * $100,000
1,200,000

Platinum
12 * $500,000
$6,000,000

Total
$34,520,000 max. from memberships.

So most of that money must come from, seemingly-anonymous,
donations.

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