From: Alejandro Colomar <alx-AT-kernel.org>
Hi all,
As you know, I’ve been maintaining the Linux man-pages project for the last 4 years as a voluntary. I’ve been doing it in my free time, and no company has sponsored that work at all. At the moment, I cannot sustain this work economically any more, and will temporarily and indefinitely stop working on this project. If any company has interests in the future of the project, I’d welcome an offer to sponsor my work here; if so, please let me know.
Have a lovely day! Alex
This sounds like the sort of infrastructure project the Linux Foundation should be supporting.
Things like this make me wish I was a tech CEO. I’d totally be the guy ensuring we give back to projects if I was.
That is part of why you’re not a tech CEO. You’re not supposed to have compassion! No investor would want that.
P.S. This is an attack on CEOs and investors, not on you :)
In my opinion it’s criminal just how often this happens. Big business making obscene profit off the back of volunteer work like yours and many others across the OSS community.
