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CNET News: Say What? Debian Developers are ‘Childish’

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Zoë Slocum
Dec 20, 2006

“Andreas Barth and fellow Debian version 4 release manager Steve
Langasek probably predicted a little bit of resentment from fellow
contributors to the Linux project when they set up an ‘experiment’
help fund their efforts. After all, they called it Dunc-Tank, which
naturally reminds us of a really fun carnival sport.

“While the rest of the team is getting paid nothing, as is the
norm in open-source communities, Barth and Langasek have reportedly
raised enough to pay themselves $6,000 each…”

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