On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 16:14:42 -0400,
Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org> wrote:
How are you defining which things are sponsored and paid for? If it's
"whatever things Red Hat chooses to pay for", then the answer to how
much RH pays for is 100% by definition. If it's "all of the things
Red Hat requires from external contributors in order to make Fedora",
the answer to how much RH pays for is surely more like 10%, assuming
RH's level of contribution to the kernel and GNOME and so on holds
across different projects.
Probably he is referring to infrastructure. Servers and network capacity.
There is also funding to support events like FADs and FUDCONs.
If you count people time, then its probably not that high.