NetBSD Foundation Now 501(c)(3) Classified

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NetBSD Foundation Now 501(c)(3) Classified

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 11, 2004 @03:07AM from the fresh-from-the-grave-ready-to-dance dept.

ap writes "The NetBSD Project announced today that The NetBSD Foundation Inc. is now classified as an Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) publicly-funded non-profit organization. Donations to the Foundation by U.S. taxable entities are now fully tax-deductible. More information can be found at netbsd.org/donations."

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Now, at last a real charity! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-11 03:12 · Score: 4, Funny

Now I don't have to waste my money feeding starving kids in Africa.
1. Re:Now, at last a real charity! by gkelman · 2004-02-11 03:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yeah spend it on apple kit instead.
Faith-based too? by orthogonal · 2004-02-11 03:56 · Score: 5, Funny
Given the strong, almost religious feelings of OS-zealots, now that George W. Bush is advocating giving Federal money to religious ("faith-based") organizations, why not just declare BSD to be a religion (and the various *BSDs sects of that religion), and grab the Federal funds directly?

Imagine a "faithed-based" rehabilitation program run not by the Baptists or the Catholics, but by open source BSD zealots: "Joe, you can over come your Microsoft addiction if you just follow this 12-step program:
- First, admit that you are powerless over Microsoft -- and thanks to their OSes, your life has become unmanageable.
- Second, believe in a higher power: the Regents of the University of California.
- Third, decide to use Richard Stallman's tool set.
- Fourth, make a searching and fearless moral inventory of your hard drive for Microsoft products, then
- Five show yourfaith by running fdisk on your MS-Windows partitions.
- ....
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Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
1. Re:Faith-based too? by Spunk · 2004-02-11 05:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  With all the dying they do, I hope the BSDs have faith in resurrection.
Re:Paypal donations link? by jschauma · 2004-02-11 06:02 · Score: 3, Informative

There was a problem with the site being recreated from the xml sources using not-quite-up-to-date tools. That's quite unfortunate. Anyway, it's been fixed in the mean time.

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-- "Tradition is the illusion of permanence."
Re:Paypal donations link? by craig2787 · 2004-02-11 09:19 · Score: 3, Funny

They need donations to be able to pay someone to fix the code.
Re:Wait. You do it wrong. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-11 10:52 · Score: 4, Informative

There's some differences between the BSDs, but here are the programs and libraries in FreeBSD's /usr/src/gnu as of 4.9-RELEASE: as awk bc binutils cc cpio csu cvs dc dialog diff diff3 gperf grep groff gzip ld libdialog libg++ libg2c libgcc libgcc_r libgmp libmp libobjc libreadline libregex libstdc++ man patch perl ptx rcs sdiff send-pr sort tar texinfo uucp
and Europe ? :) by bsdcow · 2004-02-13 15:59 · Score: 3, Insightful

I hope we will be able, someday in Europe, to give money to NetBSD and other open source projects like GNU while having the money we give substracted from our taxes. In the end, each euro or dollar we put into open source is dedicated to everyone, the whole community but also all users ! :) I hope someone is checking about this for Europe.