[BangPypers] Funding FOSS through CSR

Sreekanth S Rameshaiah sree at mahiti.org
Tue Nov 24 23:38:50 EST 2015


On 21 November 2015 at 08:26, Noufal Ibrahim KV <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
wrote:

> I'm sceptical of organisations and much prefer that companies directly
> hire people to work on free software rather than first make x, then
> donate a small fraction of x to some organisation who then donate a
> fraction of that to the actual people who do the work from which said
> company profits.
>

This is not a fare assessment. Its based on the assumption that only
fraction of the money received by foundation is given to developers. This
is not the case in most of the FOSS foundations.
- sree


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