[nvda] Re: More NVDA promoting

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Simon Jaeger, Laptop Edition wrote:
This is going to sound like a dumb question I think, but why do they need funding. I mean, of course they need to keep the site running and other such things, but how does that work, exactly?
Mick and Jamie work fulltime on NVDA. In other words, this is their job. It's not something they do in their spare time. NV Access employs them on a standard Australian award at a standard industry hourly rate.
The grants that have been received from organisations such as The Mozilla Foundation, Microsoft, Adobe and Yahoo have quite literally funded NVDA development. 

Compared to this, the costs of running the website etc is insignificant.

Geoff.

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