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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. I donated, what about you? by plcurechax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I don't use NetBSD directly, I am confident that I have benefited from the NetBSD project.

    I've already donated $20.00 US, and if 2 in 1000 slashdot readers did the same, they would met their goal and we won't see this story again.

    1. Re:I donated, what about you? by benjamindees · · Score: 2, Insightful

      www.microsoft.com

      We're all confident that you guys have benefitted from NetBSD as well. I, for one, am no longer interested in the public continuing to fund R&D for the most wealthy company in the world.

      --
      "I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
  2. Re:Stability, reliability, quality. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "What do you do when the CPU fan dies and the system shuts down"

    I take three of those Pentium 4 "desktops" in redundancy so I'm even better than you with your single point of failure no matter how VAX is it.