Notices by david celis (davidcelis@xoxo.zone)

@jeff that doesn’t negate what i’m saying though? the non-profit pays its employees. it’s an entity that holds money for that purpose. there are definitely unpaid contributors as with any large open source project, but you can’t say it’s built by a handful of unpaid volunteers, because it isn’t

@jeff @left_adjoint Mastodon isn’t built only by a handful of unpaid volunteers; it’s owned and operated by Mastodon gGmbH, and it has salaried employees working on the software full time

@jeff my bad, you’re right that it’s a trademark ownership; but what do you mean it doesn’t fund the project or pay its developers? i’ve seen job listings for Mastodon gGmbH with salaries. you’re saying that money comes directly from crowd-funding and not from the non-profit?