Per, On Monday 06 November 2006 01:54, Per Qvindesland wrote:
Uhuu why would that cost time and money, well I can agree on the time thingy do but it's do-able for sure that's how 90% out of all distros today have been started Centos as a perfect example to this, built upon RHEL but modified and developed with a lot of TLC, but yeah it could be done.
Well, if the workers can get free food, clothing, housing, etc., then no, it does not cost money to maintain a distribution. Very few people are independently wealthy and must either be paid for the work they do or give it a low priority, especially w.r.t. their paid work. And, of course, there's the requisite computing infrastructure, computers, mass storage, high-capacity Internet connections, electric power, etc. Only some of that can come from services like SourceForge. It's easy to underestimate the work of putting together a distribution, even if it includes only 100% FLOSS code and nothing locally developed (if it's even possible to put out a distribution that way).
Regards Per
Randall Schulz