NetBSD Foundation Now 501(c)(3) Classified

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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Faith-based too?

[orthogonal]

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.
• ....