FreeBSD Foundation Passes '04 Small Donation Needs

Posted by timothy on Monday December 27, 2004 @01:17PM 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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Re:Heh by VVelox · 2004-12-27 14:57 · 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.