←back to thread

Qubes OS Begins Commercialization and Community Funding Efforts

(www.qubes-os.org)
129 points detaro | 1 comments | 30 Nov 16 10:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
Show context
wodencafe ◴[30 Nov 16 14:02 UTC] No.13070709[source]▶
Qubes OS itself is a nice idea. I worry about the commercialization aspect, though.

Will the Qubes Team be sharing a portion of their commercial profit with members of the Open Source Community who have previously contributed to Qubes OS?

replies(2): >>13071130 #>>13071275 #
1. throwaway7767 ◴[30 Nov 16 15:04 UTC] No.13071275[source]▶
> Will the Qubes Team be sharing a portion of their commercial profit with members of the Open Source Community who have previously contributed to Qubes OS?

As one of the people who has contributed code to Qubes, I don't see why they should do that. I didn't contribute out of hope of financial gain, and I doubt anyone else did. They should use the money to pay for further developments on Qubes, not to pay for work already done and given away for free.