appears to receive stable funding from the FSF

No, about ten underemployed or semi-retired graybeards on the emacs.devel mailing list burn most of their waking hours futzing with emacs. That's not an exaggeration. They receive no remuneration.

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kqr 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's sad. Is there a way I can fund them without going through FSF? I tried looking into it before but it seemed like FSF was the only alternative, so I assumed it was well-managed.

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sachac 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://github.com/tarsius/elisp-maintainers and https://github.com/freetonik/support-emacs-community-devs list quite a few people, so you can support them directly.

	▲	kqr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, thanks. At least one of them is apparently already receiving recurring donations from me!

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jr_isidore 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bro, the FSF is an unchecked post office box somewhere in Kendall Square, and besides, do you really think $10 per month makes a difference? I don't know what these guys feed off of, but it's not food or anything else that money buys.

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beepbooptheory 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The emacs devel mailing list is way more active than that.. although you do see some regulars there for sure.

	▲	jr_isidore 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You misunderstand. Every mailing list has their healthy share of drive-by contributions, but emacs.devel contains a handful of dudes for whom all they do is emacs. We're talking nights, weekends, holidays. If they were indeed working a job, the inordinate time spent on the mailing list would constitute defrauding their employer.