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FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50%
TrueSatan writes "Perhaps a sign of our troubled times or a sign that FreeBSD is becoming less relevant to modern computing needs: the FreeBSD project has sought $500,000 by year end to allow it to continue to offer to fund and manage projects, sponsor FreeBSD events, Developer Summits and provide travel grants to FreeBSD developers. But with the end of this year fast approaching, it has raised just over $280,000, far short of its target."
After many long years on Slashdot, can I be the first one to actually confirm that FreeBSD is dead?
Perhaps they should ask Apple to fund them. Good luck.
a sign that BSD is becoming less relevant to modern computing needs
Obligatory remark about how Mac OS X and iOS are BSD and are used by tens of millions of people everyday, blah, blah, blah.
With the obligatory remark about how they never give back to the community.
(Next post please add the link to the source code that Apple releases in order to refute my anti-fanboish trope)
(With any luck we will trap all the anti- and pro- Apple rants in this one thread!)
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
No, I don't think I ever met you. Nice to meet you.
*whoooosh*
Why can't you just check apples web site for your self? Moron?
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
Perhaps they should ask Apple to fund them. Good luck.
Perhaps they should ask Apple to sue them.
It might get them some sympathy donations . . . ?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Whether its a dead OS or not, in an attempt to make me feel better about using Mac OS X and iOS I donated :P
isaac@xen:~$ ping -c 2 10.0.0.107
PING 10.0.0.107 (10.0.0.107) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.107: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.595 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.107: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.959 ms
It's certainly not a dead OS, it's running perfectly well.