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To Whom Should I Donate?

Posted by Soulskill on from the think-of-the-devs dept.

jasonmanley writes "I currently use DesktopBSD. The other day I gave some thought to donating money to the project, but then I got to thinking — to whom would I donate the money? DesktopBSD benefits from FreeBSD and KDE among other projects. What about software with a smaller focus, such as OpenSSH? In fact, there are heaps of other projects' software embedded in FOSS packages, and I would like to know who the community thinks should get the donations."

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  1. Cowboyneal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    n/t

  2. Making things complicated. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yet another instance where going with Microsoft makes things easier!

    1. Re:Making things complicated. by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, giving the money to Microsoft would almost be like a lottery.

      There is a 1 in 20 jillion chance of them making significant improvements to their operating system, software, and business practices resulting in a decent, problem free [or much reduced] computing system.

      The odds of this happening are excruciatingly small, just like a lottery. The different thing about it is, if you 'hit', it greatly improves the computing experience of most of the computing world [so it's like everyone wins].

      This post can be modded: flamebait, insightful, dopey, idiotic, and/or funny. Any other modding is expressly forbidden.

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    2. Re:Making things complicated. by dvice_null · · Score: 4, Funny

      Microsoft did.

  3. Easy answer! by rts008 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Me.

    I'll make that complicated decision for you...honest!

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    1. Re:Easy answer! by mrbluze · · Score: 5, Funny

      Me.

      That's what Bill Gates was thinking when he came out with Windows Me.

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    2. Re:Easy answer! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2, Funny

      Windows Me? 'Windows' is now a verb?

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    3. Re:Easy answer! by mrbluze · · Score: 3, Funny

      Windows Me? 'Windows' is now a verb?

      Actually... yeah.

      • "I think my computer is Windowsed."
      • "That is sooooo Windowsed!"
      • "Go and get W*ndowsed!"

      Yep. Works for me.

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    4. Re:Easy answer! by R.D.Olivaw · · Score: 2, Funny

      Verb "I".
      I've been Iing hybrid cars for a while now. I think I might buy one.
    5. Re:Easy answer! by lilomar · · Score: 2, Funny

      What, do you get in and encourage the car to develop a personality? That's pretty odd. That's awesome. Don't listen to this naysayer. Let me know how that goes.
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  4. Re:The little guys by wfWebber · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah. Nothing sets the spirits like receiving $0.05 from an enthousiastic user.

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  5. Me. by Zoolander · · Score: 5, Funny

    In this day and age, there are still software developers who - through no fault of their own - do not own a 50 inch Pioneer plasma.
    I happen to be one of those unfortunate souls.
    Please, give generously.

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  6. Re:The little guys by nfk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even better would be just $0.02, accompanied by a big rant about future direction of the project.

  7. Re:Take a Look Around by Daengbo · · Score: 2, Funny

    But it is offtopic. "Should I name my baby Ken or Ralph?" "You should adopt. There are so many orphans out there."

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  8. Re:Me! by gzipped_tar · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know what this is up to, but ...

    > print hello+comma+space+world

    This is performance killer. You should instead write:
            print "%s%s%s%s" % (hello, comma, space, world)

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  9. Re:Take a Look Around by ciaohound · · Score: 2, Funny

    I promise, Microsoft won't get any of it.

    I'm not so sure. Consensus around here seems to be that Vista is a disaster, after all.
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  10. I hear SCO have fallen on hard times by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hear SCO have fallen on hard times, you could always donate to them. YCSTB.

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