FreeBSD Foundation Receives Another $500,000 USD Gift

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FreeBSD Foundation Receives Another $500,000 USD Gift

FreeBSD is ending 2016 on a high note by receiving another "Uranium Level" donation, marking it as an additional $500,000 USD for their foundation...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-Uranium-Anonymous

[LinuxID10T]

Wow, that is pretty cool. What does the money go toward anyway?

[ElectricPrism]

Awesome, lets start a FreeBSD Foundation++

[Luke_Wolf]

Wow, that is pretty cool. What does the money go toward anyway?

funding conventions, project management, and paying for a few full time developers to work on core projects basically as I understand it.

[horizonbrave]

will other *bsd's benefit from the donation somehow?
why freebsd?
why bad?
why not freenas?
why not Linux?
WHY NOT BCACHE-FS??

[horizonbrave]

bad=bsd
bad=photonic non-editable replies

[horizonbrave]

photonic=phoronix ))

[Luke_Wolf]

will other *bsd's benefit from the donation somehow?

Indirectly

why freebsd?

LOL?

why bsd?

Trolololol?

why not freenas?

because iXSystems owns them bro, they don't need foundation money

why not Linux?

Trolololololololol?

WHY NOT BCACHE-FS??

[Space Heater]

This is good news, we do not want a monoculture when it comes to unix-like operating systems.

[kneekoo]

Amazing news. Congrats to FreeBSD for reaching their goal for 2016, and many thanks to all the donors!