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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
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In comp.os.linux.misc Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:
>> They're interesting cases. Google is determining the direction that
>> the Web evolves, thus the direction Firefox development has to go, and
>> they're the main ones paying Mozilla (for now). Hardware manufacturers
>> determine how computers evolve, and thus how Linux is developed to
>> work well on them, and maybe the Linux Foundation gets some funding
>> from the computer hardware companies (is this info public?), or at
>> least many code contributions from Intel and the like.
> 
> The end of [1] has a high-level breakdown of funding sources.  [2] lists
> its corporate members and [3] has the fee structure (towards the end).
> 
> [1] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/linux-foundation-annual-report-2024
> [2] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
> [3]
> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/LF%20Brand%20Assets/lf_member_benefits_101424a.pdf

I see, I went to their members page before, but there's more to see
in a Web browser with Javascript support.

But memberships don't seem to add up to much of the $125,120,830
recorded as received from "membership & donations" in the annual
report.

Silver
1366 * $20,000 (best case, if all members had >5,000 employees)
$27,320,000

Gold
12 * $100,000
1,200,000

Platinum
12 * $500,000
$6,000,000

Total
$34,520,000 max. from memberships.

So most of that money must come from, seemingly-anonymous,
donations.

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