Three ways for Ubuntu to help developers

Wouldn't a straight forward way to help developers who develop software for the ubuntu ecosystem be to pay them?<p>gnome contributions (as % of commits)<p>Red Hat 16.30%<p>Novell 10.44%<p>Intel 2.57%<p>Sun 2.04%<p>Nokia 1.42%<p>Canonical 1.03%