[email protected] wrote: > David Gerard wrote: > > Our current markup is one of our biggest barriers to participation. > > > > [snip] > > > > * Tim doesn't scale. Most of our other technical people don't scale. > > *We have no resources and still run on almost nothing*. > > > > ($14m might sound like enough money to run a popular website, but for > > comparison, I work as a sysadmin at a tiny, tiny publishing company > > with more money and staff just in our department than that to do > > *almost nothing* compared to what WMF achieves. WMF is an INCREDIBLY > > efficient organisation.) >
In comparison $14m does seem highly profligate. Our R&D budget was £10m (approx $16) in 2009, spent almost entirely on software development, and we have over 160 software engineers working on our products. Remind me just how many full time developers does WMF have?
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