https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17598685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17598685 and https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donating

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17598685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17598685 and https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donating-to-slackware-4175634729/#post5882751 https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donati... If anyone is still monitoring this thread, it transpires that Patrick Volkerding, the BDFL and main developer of Slackware, is having financial problems. Moderators: I think this story would be of interest to HNers because of its similarities with the OpenBSD situation some years ago, and the issue of how to fund open source/free software projects generally