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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.

2 of 84 comments (clear)

  1. Re:More about the "quota"? by ValourX · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about "help make FreeBSD 6.0 useable" after the disaster that was 5.3-RELEASE. I donated, but I don't use FreeBSD anymore because through some hidden magic of development, FreeBSD's SK/Yukon LAN driver stopped working properly between 5.2.1 and 5.3, and I'm sick of having to patch the source tree to get Audigy support. Don't even get me started about all of the problems the AMD64 port has.

    -Jem

  2. Re:Fuckin' morons! Support D-fly! FreeBSD IS DEAD! by ArbitraryConstant · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now I know that DragonFlyBSD is truly one of the BSD pantheon.

    It has zealotous trolls.

    --
    I rarely criticize things I don't care about.