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While you're here, have you donated[0][1] yet? :) You may or may not be aware, but FreeBSD runs your movies on Netflix, your games on PlayStation and Nitendo Sw
by tachion 9y ago
While you're here, have you donated[0][1] yet? :) You may or may not be aware, but FreeBSD runs your movies on Netflix, your games on PlayStation and Nitendo Switch, your files on FreeNAS and ZFS, your friends on WhatsApp and OpenBSD runs everything else on OpenSSH. ;)
So, you may or may not know that, but you need FreeBSD and OpenBSD and they also need you! Every cent counts and so does every contributor, that helps the foundations keep their non-profit status. Also, you CAN be the change, if you specify what you'd like your donation to be used for (like more secure defaults for the OS).
[0] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
[1] https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
- na85 9y agoSeems to me that Netflix, Sony, et al should be paying FreeBSD, not the users. Why would I subsidize FreeBSD so that mega corps can leech off the hard work of volunteers, and by extension leech off my donation?
- boomboomsubban 9y agoThey do pay, both in code and donations.
- na85 9y agoObviously these hugely profitable companies don't pay enough. Otherwise I should not need to donate.
- boomboomsubban 9y agoObviously Windows should be free, with all the huge companies that use that. The logic makes no sense.
- Neeek 9y agoIt makes perfect sense if you don't personally own or use Windows. I don't pay Microsoft again to play TitanFall just because their servers are hosted on Azure. I understand we all probably use tools everyday that can be attributed to these projects and I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't give them money. Just that the Netflix/WhatsApp comments seem a little disingenuous. That shouldn't be in the "reasons you need BSD", those are just reasons Neflix and WhatsApp need BSD.
- tachion 9y agoYou might one day want to run a startup or a project and then you could just do it on FreeBSD in any way you like, given the permissive license and this is exactly the reason why you need BSD, not only because Netflix or WhatsApp uses them to serve you the service.
- Neeek 9y agoI should donate to every project on github in case I need to use one somewhere in the future!
- boomboomsubban 9y agoI can guarantee you'll need to use an operating system, they're rather essential. Ensuring the basic building blocks are available for future use is beneficial, and showing what has previously been built with them shows why.
- Neeek 9y agoNo need to be smug, FreeBSD is hardly the only operating system available to us.
- boomboomsubban 9y agoI'm not saying that it is, just that you can't compare it to "every project on github."
- tachion 9y agoYou're not supposed to do that so that the mega corps could do that. You're supposed to do that so that _anyone_ could do that and benefit from the open source code that's best suited for running a business, even if your idea of running a business and using open source is to not share anything back.
- Arelius 9y agoAny citations about Switch using FreeBSD by chance?
- Twirrim 9y agohttp://www.osnews.com/story/29698/Nintendo_Switch_runs_FreeBSD http://www.osnews.com/story/29698/Nintendo_Switch_runs_FreeB...
- avar 9y agoThat line of citations just ends in a tweet quoting a copyright notice from the FreeBSD kernel. That doesn't mean the Switch runs FreeBSD, just that Nintendo used some code from the kernel, which could be as small as adapting a single driver to their in-house OS.
- beefhash 9y agoIt's not FreeBSD[1]. This is doubled up by the fact that the networking system module is called "bsd"[2]. [1] https://reswitched.tech/software/oss https://reswitched.tech/software/oss [2] http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Sockets_services http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Sockets_services