Linus gets paid to be a BDFL. Pay me enough and I too will sit down and benevolently dictate things all day long. Until then, the world will have to make do with the blast radius.
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He gets paid because there's a foundation set up to direct resources around kernel development, including his compensation.
You can see the fiscal info around that foundation here [0]
I know it's boring paper bullsh*t but this is the sort of thing more people need to set up.
[0] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...
I'd love to set one up, but I don't think it's enough... That's not the whole story. I bet the actual fundraising is a full time job unto itself.
I joined the GitHub Sponsors thing and somwhow got a few sponsors, but it wasn't even close to "quit $DAYJOB and focus on free software" territory. Achieving success here would be a dream come true but even the biggest open source projects aren't making anywhere close to a good individual salary. As the biggest free software project ever, Linux is always the exception.