If it were me, I would use the extra money to market the OS and improve
things that need to be improved by throwing some compensation to the core
programmers and artists. In return, that would mean less stress on everyone
as more people are available to tighten things up and get quicker releases.
Of course once you start paying people, you have to maintain it or else
people may leave. How does the FSF do it?
If that money was spent to maintain Debian testing or unstable (which Linux
Mint and Ubuntu already do), it would be a waste of time and resources. You
guys have already did a great job in filtering out the Ubuntu main and
universe repositories and bringing in the libre kernel.
If you guys want to make this OS more than a niche OS in an already niche
Linux desktop market, then I am all for it. Wouldn't it be nice to get more
people off of Windows in the places where it matters? I'm talking schools,
government offices, and maybe even small businesses. I live in the US and
understand that in Europe things run differently regarding business, but
Microsoft pretty much rules everything here.
