09-08-2019, 07:30 AM
Nothing will keep rolling without money. Time is money. Ability is money. Creators of solid Linux distributions offer a lot of their time, as well as the exclusive technical skill, to make and maintain what they share ideally for free. Eventually, even if work upon the project could be considered free of charge, subsidiary costs come into play, such as even hosting and maintaining a website. This is when the case of donations come into place.
Nonetheless, no man can do a world alone. Solitary operating system could be a technological wonder, but if nobody uses it and effectively, if there are no valid contents created for it, it is as good as a souvenir.
In the perfect world, balance is critical. We need capable operating systems that smoothly run worthy applications. But it takes time and ability to make and maintain a good piece of software as much as it does in terms of the operating system. Which brings us to the question of limited resources to be possibly spent either on donating to the 'Core', by which I mean the operating system - or the 'Infrastructure', by which I mean all the applications meant for users, in order to be able to make use of the operating system.
If you were to decide where to make the money go, which one would you choose, the 'Core' or the 'Infrastructure'?
Nonetheless, no man can do a world alone. Solitary operating system could be a technological wonder, but if nobody uses it and effectively, if there are no valid contents created for it, it is as good as a souvenir.
In the perfect world, balance is critical. We need capable operating systems that smoothly run worthy applications. But it takes time and ability to make and maintain a good piece of software as much as it does in terms of the operating system. Which brings us to the question of limited resources to be possibly spent either on donating to the 'Core', by which I mean the operating system - or the 'Infrastructure', by which I mean all the applications meant for users, in order to be able to make use of the operating system.
If you were to decide where to make the money go, which one would you choose, the 'Core' or the 'Infrastructure'?