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NetBSD Makes Plea for 'Cold, Hard Cash'

Posted by timothy on from the capitalist-running-dogs dept.

daria42 writes "NetBSD has e-mailed its user community asking for donations. "There are many upgrades we'd like to make to the NetBSD project infrastructure," said the e-mail, "but which we cannot make because, to be blunt, our project is poor. Not poor in innovation nor poor in developer resources nor poor in features -- poor in cold, hard cash, the kind we need to buy hardware that would let us better serve our users." The e-mail pointed out while sister projects OpenBSD and FreeBSD had received tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, NetBSD had up until now been embarrassed to ask its users for money."

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  1. OK, OK by FullMetalAlchemist · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, OK... I _will_ donate again... :-P

    Thank you Slashdot, dupes in the BSD section; well, at least they post news twise as often.

  2. Just like public radio by Intron · · Score: 3, Funny

    This story is just like those NPR pledge drives that keep coming around again, asking for money.

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  3. Diversification is needed by suitepotato · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should convince hot naked chicks to wear BSD demon temporary tattoos and then sell the pics. Instant hit with geeks. Money comes in.

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  4. Re:I donated, what about you? by Belgarath52 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Donating money might well fix the problem, but I'm pretty confident that we'll get the story again until the end of time.

    Slashdot should fund this by offering subscribers the ability to block dupes for an extra $2/month, and sending the proceeeds to NetBSD. Of course, we'd probably get articles about that new feature every 2-4 weeks...

  5. Re:I donated, what about you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    they'd get a little more if 1 in 500 donated