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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. Re:To the Digital Standards Organization by knutkracker · · Score: 0, Troll

    Digistan??

    Inspiring ideas, but the name is unfortunate.

    I keep thinking of a backward country run by the Ayatollah Stallman that represses women (by refusing to talk to them about anything other than code and sci-fi) and persecutes those unbelievers who fail to support the FOSS revolution.

  2. Re:Relevancy ? by Esteanil · · Score: 0, Troll

    FreeBSD has more money than they know what to do with, IIRC.

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  3. Re:this may come as a suprise ... by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 0, Troll

    this may come as a suprise ... but sometimes other people besides the questioner read the answers.

    Shocking I know.

    And he _did_ say "donate" and not "donate money". Right. So this answer was just in case there were Slashdot readers currently unaware of the concept of Open Source and how it works? I dunno, maybe I'm just cranky from a poor night of sleep but to not answer the question even a little (still didn't give any help as to where the donation should go), instead opting to spout some tired FOSS cliché strikes me as particularly useless.

    And the quesioner said "donating money".
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