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There seems to be a trend that most *BSDs are having donation problems and missed 2013 budgets. For example [1], [2] I encourage all to donate to our BSD frie
by alberth 13y ago
There seems to be a trend that most *BSDs are having donation problems and missed 2013 budgets.
For example [1], [2]
I encourage all to donate to our BSD friends. We all benefit from their work.
[1] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org https://www.freebsdfoundation.org
[2] http://www.netbsd.org/donations/ http://www.netbsd.org/donations/
- rgbrenner 13y agoThe FBSD goal for 2011 was 400k (raised 460k). 2012 was for 500k goal. 2013 is 1M goal. They've raised almost 750k the last time that page was updated..
- ygra 13y agoMakes me wonder, though. There are plenty of fairly large commercial offerings based on those systems. The corporations using them (e.g. Sony, Apple) could probably easily afford a million in donations.
- rodgerd 13y agoThe could, but the license leaves them equally able to say "fuck you very much" on donations or code.
- pjmlp 13y agoThat is the wonders of the BSD license and others that follow the same principles, profit for free from the work of others without giving anything back.
- Sssnake 13y agoWow, GPL zealots sure are direct with their dishonesty these days.
- msbarnett 13y ago> That is the wonders of the BSD license and others that follow the same principles, profit for free from the work of others without giving anything back. Does any Open Source license require monetary donations from companies using the code? Sony and Apple and a lot of other companies using BSD licensed software DO give back -- in the form of code and employing developers to work the projects.
- buster 13y agoI'd be interested in a list of software that Apple and Sony contributed back to FreeBSD and that is in the ports, do you have such a list? It looks like that this is a very asymmetric relationship.
- msbarnett 13y agoFor Apple, there's quite a lot if you're willing to grovel through commits, but at the moment nothing is bigger than Clang/LLVM -- a large chunk of the core team is directly employed by Apple, and with FreeBSD 10 Clang is directly incorporated into the core system. Apple has, at various times, employed other FreeBSD core committers directly. They very quietly have done a lot to support the project. Sony, IIRC, employed some Japanese committers who were working on ACPI at one point.
- pjmlp 13y agoA few trees don't make a forest.