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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. Honorably Done by judmarc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hope you make your goal, Poul-Henning, or rather that the community makes it possible. I'm shoveling all my money into a new-house-sized hole as fast as I can or you'd have my donation already.

  2. Re:He wants HOW much? by thejuggler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fact: San Fran = Paris (Smelly and dirty and not like the rest of the country)
    Fact: Small town USA = Small town Euro (Quiet ususally friendly and a stable)
    Fact: High Taxes = Oppression (Thats why we left the European countries and became Americans in the first place. And many more are still coming to America)

    I'll take the USA anyday, lower taxes and more 'I'll do it myself' attitudes.

    The USA is NOT PERFECT. It never was, it never will be. All we can hope to do is keep trying till we get it right. To quite trying is to fail.

  3. Re:BSD-wide lack of time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fact: There are almost no FreeBSD developers left, and its use, according to Netcraft, is down to a sadly crippled .005% of internet servers. A recent attempt at a face-to-face summit in Boulder, Colorado culminated in an out-and-out fistfight between core developers. Hotel security guards broke up the melee and banned the participants from the hotel. Two of the developers were hospitalized.

    I was there -- it was Justin and Jeremy, the two main leads. Justins jaw is broken and he can't talk right anymore. Jeremy said he still hates Justin and would do it again and their problem is that they dont like the way each other does indentation in source code. Jeremy says to use tabs and Justin wants spaces and this is totally huge and is tearing FreeBSD apart.

    Personally I think the comment styles issues are a bigger deal. What kind of assfuck uses // when /* is obviously better? YOU HEAR THAT YOU DOUBLE-SLASH ASSHOLES?!!!!