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Funding An Individual BSD Developer

Posted by Hemos on from the put-your-money dept.

PuceBaboon writes "Poul-Henning Kamp,a committed FreeBSD developer (the main contributor to "jails", one of my favourite features) has lost his main contract and is appealing for funding to enable him to work on FreeBSD exclusively for the rest of the year."

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  1. He wants HOW much? by .@. · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    USD$5500/month? That's more than my net take home, and that's with a $415k mortgage to feed!

    It may be where his budget balances, but if he expects to live off the kindness of strangers, he needs to adjust his budget substantially.

    He's got some enormous cojones asking people to give him what amounts to $66,000 net/year salary (it'd be over USD$100,000 gross/year were he salaried).

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    .@.
    1. Re:He wants HOW much? by jhunsake · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I've lived in San Francisco.

      San Francisco is the farthest extreme from "normal" America.

      Healthcare is free in the U.S. when you are unemployed, it's called the emergency room. Education is of course free up to 12th grade. (The government does provide grants, scholarships, and other financial aid for college, so it's not as bad as people make it out to be.) Where I live (midwest), I rarely see pan-handlers, insane and other strays. Don't judge the U.S. based on the big cities, because all big cities across the world are that way.

      I was going to donate, but now that you've completely distorted reality to make your government (system, country, whatever) seem better than mine, FUCK YOU!

    2. Re:He wants HOW much? by Trailwalker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      "I get..., I get..., I get..."

      And if the Wehrmacht returns, you get to say "Jawohl"

  2. Has he tried McDonalds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They are generally friendly towards FreeBSD developers and pay pretty good donation money, but require to show up and make burgers every once in a while.

    I am a world-renowned FreeBSD developer and so far I got my Mom to pay me $10 a week, plus 30 hours a week at McDonalds bring in healthy $200, life is not bad.

  3. Get a freakin' job by b-baggins · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The chutzpah of some of these open-source people really annoys me. There was a time when real men were ASHAMED to take charity when they had the ability to work, even if it was just digging ditches.

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    You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
  4. Re:Honorably Done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i can shovel something into your own hole, and you better be sure as hell it aint greenbacks, buddy. ;)

  5. I/O out from under Giant lock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    The specific goals is to get the entire disk and device I/O path out from under the "Giant" lock. And at the same time untangle as much as possible of the code to make it "future proof".
    I don't have any SMP systems you insensitive clod!
  6. Re:Honorably Done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    How do you think FreeBSD is currently funded? The problem now is probably that too many developers are dying of AIDS and they are looking for an alternative.

    Hahahah! This is the funnest shit I've read on Slashdot in a while. The dorks that modded you down clearly have no sense of humor.

  7. Is it me or does this guy sound a touch arrogant? by Viol8 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I quote from his page:

    " This is the very best price I'm able to offer on my time, and it only applies for doing FreeBSD work of my own choice.) "

    So let me get this straight... he wants someone to pay him a quite large amount of money for 3 to 6 months for doing stuff that HE chooses???!

    Sorry pal , but if you're reading this I suggest you land your spaceship and take a walk around on planet earth with the rest of us where you'll
    find that people who pay you money expect you to do what THEY tell YOU, NOT the other way around!

  8. why the politics?? by kace · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bad idea bringing politics into this discussion. I'm very happy living in the U.S.A. over any of the socialist "utopias" of Europe. At the same time, I don't fault anyone else for living under such a system. (And, from the sound of things, there are more than a few /.ers that ought to move across the pond away from screwed up America.)

    I have the greatest regard for PHK and all of his fine work on FreeBSD. I will try hard to get my (big, evil, oppressive) company to contribute.

    However, Poul_Henning, I'm afraid that if you ever run for elective office in the U.S.A., you have lost my vote. :)

  9. Now you can get a Micro$oft job and get paid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    like the rest of us.

    We all know someone who "used to do bsd"
    and after 2 years couldnt give it up.
    Its time to throw in the towel and
    get a real job doing Microsoft updates.

  10. Re:Matt Dillon's (dFBSD lead) opinion on this matt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Does Matt Dillon ever do anything besides bitch and complain? Let's see some of your "wonderful" code, buddy.

  11. Re:Matt Dillon's (dFBSD lead) opinion on this matt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bullshit you clueless fuckwit. All he did give some input into the VM implementation that was subsequently deemed too unstable and had to be replaced with something better.

  12. Re:Not asking for much... by cmdr_beeftaco · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wait a second, we have to pay for this shit? Come guys be serious, tell this guy to get a real job and leave the open source stuff to volunteers. Money grubbing programmers always gotta ruin a good thing...