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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."

3 of 141 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not asking for much... by dotz · · Score: 5, Informative

    And, as phk says, you'll get much more, than just some binary updates.

  2. Re:He wants HOW much? by phkamp · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have to pay my income tax, which here in Denmark is roughly 2/3, and that means the number you are looking at is a $22K/year net salary.

    Depending on the jobdescription, my normal salary would be at least $75K, so I tend to think that the FreeBSD users are getting a pretty good deal here.

    (And before anybody falls into the other ditch: For that tax we get full healthcare, free schools (incl university) and a practically non-corrupt political system.

    --
    Poul-Henning Kamp -- FreeBSD since before it was called that...
  3. Beer-ware by Piquan · · Score: 5, Informative

    A fair bit of phk's code is under the Beer-ware license:

    /*
    * "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
    * <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
    * can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
    * this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return Poul-Henning Kamp
    */

    (Some formatting changed for the lameness filter)

    In all likelyhood, I'll never meet phk, so I reckon I can donate instead of buying him a beer directly.