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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> I can tell you, with a little lead notice, who pays for the development
> work for the a lot principlals involved in the Linux kernel, its various
> window managers, plus a lot of scripting languages, compilers, etc. But
> the FSF would not be (to my knowledge) in any of the above.

AFAIK, the FSF funded the development of GNU libc 2 (and perhaps still
does, I'm not sure).

> I suppose they have to be doing *something* with all that money they get
> from selling manuals and T-Shirts...

Paying lawyers? ;-)