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The point isn't easily settled, it seems: I am having a hard time to find financial statements from Debian. Ubuntu, or rather Canonical, being a private compa

by hf 12y ago

The point isn't easily settled, it seems: I am having a hard time to find financial statements from Debian. Ubuntu, or rather Canonical, being a private company, doesn't seem to release financial information. The Ubuntu main page doesn't even provide a 'donate' link anymore. Which leaves RedHat, at last. A public company, of course[0]: Operating profit 2014: $ 1.3e9 Net total income 2014: $ 178.3e6 [0] http://investors.redhat.com/financials-statements.cfm http://investors.redhat.com/financials-statements.cfm

tokenizerrr 12y ago
> The Ubuntu main page doesn't even provide a 'donate' link anymore Try to download it: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=14.04.1&architecture=amd64 http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=1...
dfc 12y ago
Software in Public Interest handles debian's donations. The latest treasurer report from SPI can be found here: http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2014-November/003353.html http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2014-November... For some reason SPI has not put out an annual report since 2012: http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/2012.pdf http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/2012.pdf
vacri 12y ago
This article claims that $222k was the budget for 2012 for Debian, down at the bottom. It also claims the budget should be $19B, if paid at market rates. http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/what-is-the-development-costs-of-debian-gnu-linux-how-much-costs-the-development-of-a-free-software-projects/ http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/what-is-the-development-costs-o...
Alupis 12y ago
Here's Canonical's 2013 numbers: http://www.scribd.com/doc/199373896/Canonical-Group-Limited-Annual-Accounts-2013 http://www.scribd.com/doc/199373896/Canonical-Group-Limited-... 21 million USD negative, largely due to Ubuntu development and related expenses. Canonical has never been profitable, which is why Shuttleworth constantly re-invests his own personal capital in the company.

by hf 12y ago

tokenizerrr 12y ago

> The Ubuntu main page doesn't even provide a 'donate' link anymore Try to download it: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=14.04.1&architecture=amd64 http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=1...

dfc 12y ago

Software in Public Interest handles debian's donations. The latest treasurer report from SPI can be found here: http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2014-November/003353.html http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2014-November... For some reason SPI has not put out an annual report since 2012: http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/2012.pdf http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/2012.pdf

vacri 12y ago

This article claims that $222k was the budget for 2012 for Debian, down at the bottom. It also claims the budget should be $19B, if paid at market rates. http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/what-is-the-development-costs-of-debian-gnu-linux-how-much-costs-the-development-of-a-free-software-projects/ http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/what-is-the-development-costs-o...

Alupis 12y ago

Here's Canonical's 2013 numbers: http://www.scribd.com/doc/199373896/Canonical-Group-Limited-Annual-Accounts-2013 http://www.scribd.com/doc/199373896/Canonical-Group-Limited-... 21 million USD negative, largely due to Ubuntu development and related expenses. Canonical has never been profitable, which is why Shuttleworth constantly re-invests his own personal capital in the company.