In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr ites: >I'm not the expert on Debian's finances, but here's my understanding. >Nils, please correct me where I'm wrong. > Nothing to correct :)
>On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:14:45PM -0700, ... wrote: >> I was about to place an order for the 3 CD set of Debian 2.0 from >> Linux Central and noticed that you can donate $5 of your purchase towards >> the Debian project. I was wondering, who gets this money? Is it SPI? > >Yes. With the recent changes in the SPI board, all board members of SPI are >active Debian developers. SPI was originally set up to handle legal and >financial aspects of Debian, and possibly other projects, and that's what it >is doing. > The money goes to SPI and is put into a Debian account. CD vendors regularly send checks for the donations they receive. >> Does it go to pay for servers/bandwith for the main HTTP/FTP sites? > >As far as I know, all bandwith is donated, as well as the servers to a large >degree. The money is used for a lot of different things, including >- domain registration fees for debian.org >- some hardware acquisitions >- hiring booth space on Linux related trade shows >- membership costs for Linux International >and probably lots of other similiar things. > Those are all the costs that I have seen SPI spend money on so far, and at times donations to help other projects out. Nils. >HTH, >Ray >-- >J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks > | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. > | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan >
