Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS

Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by cm3 on Monday August 01, 2016 @06:16AM (#12201262)

I'm unaware of any Emacs or GCC dev being paid by the FSF. From what I recall, the Emacs maintainers do it as a hobby, and the GCC maintainers are employed by the likes of Red Hat to work on it. However, if what you're implying is true, I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong :).

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Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by gaius on Monday August 01, 2016 @06:19AM (#12201268)

Perhaps not at the moment, but you can read all about the woes Zawinski had with the guy GNU hired to work on Emacs that led to the XEmacs fork...

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Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by raverbashing on Monday August 01, 2016 @06:43AM (#12201363)

Interesting read https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html

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Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by draven on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:04AM (#12201476)

There's a redirect to imgur if the referrer is hacker news.

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Re:Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS by cm3 on Monday August 01, 2016 @07:44AM (#12201633)

Not many people other than JWZ can pull that off without pissing off people. Reminds of the time when MSN.com hot-linked to some poor guy's website in a front-page article. What did the guy do? Replace the image with a copy of the original goatse photo.

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