Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money 113
mbadolato writes "On December 9, 2012, Slashdot reported that the FreeBSD Foundation was falling short of their 2012 goal of $500,000 by nearly 50%. For all of those that continued to echo about how FreeBSD is dying, it's less than three weeks later and the total is presently nearing $200,000 OVER the goal. Netcraft continues to be wrong."
And reader hypnosec adds another crowdfunding success story: "The Wikimedia Foundation has announced at the conclusion of its ninth annual fund-raiser that it has managed to raise a whopping $25 million from 1.2 million donors in just over a week's time. ... As compared to last year's fund-raiser, which got completed in 46 days, this year's was completed in just nine days."
Linux Foundation and graphics/wifi drivers? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe the Linux Foundation (or someone else, they're the first that come to mind) could do a similar thing to raise money for improving the Linux graphics and wireless stacks? How much improvement could we get for a million USD? Or perhaps there are individual developers out there who would do what Poul-Henning Kamp [freebsd.org] did? I'd be happy to contribute to such an initiative. Kickstart it?
46 days with Creepy Jimmy. 9 days without him. (Score:0, Funny)
That's the difference.
Re:Then, don't forget NetBSD (Score:2, Funny)
I did check that page and investigated a bit and found out that the page hasn't really been updated in a while since NetBSD 6.0 has been out for a few months already, and if we check the money gauge image, we get:
Last-Modified: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:30:05 GMT
They probably have gone above the ~$13k the image shows. It just hasn't been updated in three years, for whatever reason.