
<html><head></head><body>It's all well and good to say Free Software projects must be managed to professional SysAdmin standards, but how many people have contributed towards that goal? As far as I know, Clem is the only person actively working on that project, and he openly publishes the donations he receives: <a href="http://linuxmint.com/donors.php">http://linuxmint.com/donors.php</a> It looks substantial, but when you subtract the costs of running the site there's not much left over for food and shelter.<br>

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--Bob.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On February 24, 2016 12:06:14 PM EST, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb@2bits.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

<div dir="ltr">And the forum database was hacked and sold a full month before they announced they were hacked.<br /><br />Very disappointing to see a popular free software project being mismanaged that way, with no proper updates.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-mint-forum-database-compromised-for-at-least-a-month-before-announcement-500901.shtml">http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-mint-forum-database-compromised-for-at-least-a-month-before-announcement-500901.shtml</a><br /></div>

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