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FreeBSD Foundation Passes '04 Small Donation Needs

Posted by timothy on from the next-year-donate-through-your-many-children dept.

MTS writes "Thanks to the generous contributions of over 800 donors, a combination of both first-time donors and existing supportors, the FreeBSD Foundation has met and exceeded its fund-raising goal necessary to qualify for the 1/3 'public support' goal required to maintain its 501(c)3 status with the IRS. Your continued donations will help to support a broad variety of FreeBSD activities, including critical development, developer collaboration, testing, and involvement in standards processes." Convoluted tax laws meant that FreeBSD's success in attracting larger donations had threatened the organization's tax-free status.

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  1. More about the "quota"? by agent+dero · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Will this quota of 1/3 of public donations need to be held every year from now on? Or is this just to _acquire_ non-profit status.

    None the less, woohoo for the foundation, help make FreeBSD 6.0 even better ;)

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  2. Re:Heh by setagllib · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's so strange about that? In capitalism you need money to get anything useful done. But open source is an attempt at communist ideals emulated within a capitalist reality. It doesn't work out without money.

    Don't complain about open source, go complain about governments making it so hard to MAKE anything for free.

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  3. Re:Heh by VVelox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It has nothing to do with communist ideas or even being free. Open source easily fits in with capitalism as well or any other economics system.

    Open Source just means that you can easily view the source code and generally possibly to modify it.

    If you want to talk about ideas, you should talk about different groups and the like, but not generalize like that.

  4. Re:Heh by dn15 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    open source is an attempt at communist ideals emulated within a capitalist reality
    While this may appear to be the case at first glance, it is not true. Take the BSD license -- while the code is free, it is reusable in commercial software and changes need not be released. Effectively it allows a publicly created resource to be used in a private or commercial venture. This type of openness is a far cry from any license a Communist would use.

    The is one thing that I believe makes the BSD license a beautiful thing. The same code, created under the same license, can be freely reused in something totally open (such as Linux), partly open (such as Mac OS X), or totally closed (such as Windows XP.) Communist? Hardly.