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NetBSD Foundation Now 501(c)(3) Classified

Posted by timothy on 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."

5 of 44 comments (clear)

  1. Now, at last a real charity! by Anonymous Coward · · 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 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah spend it on apple kit instead.

  2. Faith-based too? by orthogonal · · 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.
    • ....
    --
    Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
    1. Re:Faith-based too? by Spunk · · Score: 4, Funny

      With all the dying they do, I hope the BSDs have faith in resurrection.

  3. Re:Wait. You do it wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · 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