Bonjour Jean, Thank you for your explanation. Nordine. Jean Delvare a ?crit : > Bonjour Nordine, > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:39:02 +0200, Nordine Benkeltoum wrote: > >> I'm carrying out a study on Open Source Software. >> >> I have a question about lm-sensors: >> >> Could you tell me who is at the origin of lm-sensors? Is it a firm or a >> non-profit community of volunteers? >> >> Thank you for your answer. >> > > To the best of my knowledge, the lm-sensors project was originally > created by Alexander Larsson, Frodo Looijaard and Philip Edelbrock, as > can be seen in the README file of lm-sensors 1.3.0: > > http://dl.lm-sensors.org/lm-sensors/releases/lm_sensors-1.3.0.tgz > > The former two were already gone by the time I joined the project, so I > can't speak for them. Philip is still around (which, now that I come to > think of it, is quite impressive) so hopefully he can tell you. > > My understanding is that they were hobbyists working together on the > project for fun, and there was no company behind it. As you can see, > the project is quite old, it started in 1998, and I don't think that > there were many free software projects funded by companies back then. > This however doesn't mean that the authors weren't using lm-sensors as > part of their jobs. > > Oh, and I should also add that Philip's company, Netroedge, has been > hosting our web server and CVS repository for 7 years or so. Not sure > if this qualifies as a sponsorship but this was sure nice from them :) > The list of donations we received also mentions the name of the other > companies which have been helping us: > > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/donations > >
