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Given that the freeBSD foundation receives approx. $400,00-500,000 in donations from less than 20 corps/individuals... I think rather a lot of developers would

• Taek 12y ago
  $1 per month is an incredibly trivial number. Less trivial is how difficult it is to set up payment in this fashion. If getting payment was as simple as convincing developers that it was worth $1 per month, I'm sure you could get to $1m per year (many would do much better than $1 per month).
• datashovel 12y ago
  That is alot of developers using FreeBSD, but my ideal scenario is where these groups don't rely on corporations or just a few wealthy people for donations. Also I wouldn't necessarily advocate letting corporations off the hook. If every corporation / small business / organization who uses FreeBSD in their infrastructure also contributed $1/month I think this would easily put them over the top. I think developers should be just as active with advocating to the companies they work for to also do micro-payments to open source projects / foundations they depend on for their infrastructure.