From: grep at 2021-04-07 17:43:55
who even pays developers to work on Debian
Depends. I am not paid now. I was a consultant at a previous position and part of what I did was help them integrate with the parts I work on - they got my expertise for the things on their side and Debian got good bug reports and fixes on their side.
There was a previous Debian Project Leader that put together funding to pay the release engineers to help accelerate a release and that caused a Debian Developer revolt, so the history of it is not great….
