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Out of pure curiosity, is all the actual programming work for the foundation provided free of charge by volunteers? And the foundation expenses are mostly legal and administrative?

It wasn't clear to me based on the financials: https://www.netbsd.org/foundation/reports/financial/2023.htm...

Maybe the consulting section includes payments for programming work? Presumably at cheap rates, if so?

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>Maybe the consulting section includes payments for programming work? Presumably at cheap rates, if so?

Have we reached the point on the timeline where we believe low-level operating system code should be acquired at "cheap rates"? While simultaneously, I assume, believing webshit cloud bollocks still demands top dollar?

I do not hold that belief, and nothing in my reply implies that I do.

Per the link I included, the total spent on consulting was 17,939.51 USD. So, if they were paying people, the people were working cheaply. But the consulting may have been for non-programming work. Hence my question.

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