On 06/13/2009 08:03 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I don't know how Fedora pays for all the costs of providing updates, I > never looked too closely at the funding aspects in fact. But someone out > there is shelling out big money for this. Someone is paying salaries, > infrastructure, office space, and more. That is the reality of it. http://fedoraproject.org/sponsors The mirroring system is tiered these days which helps save cost quite a bit. A lot of work is done voluntarily as well. Fedora is intended to remain always free as a community distribution. Red Hat is the primary sponsor and doesn't directly profit by Fedora but via Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a Fedora derivative. Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines