How does FreeBSD make money? reddit / BSD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MakingHange · 2023-06-04 11:10 Ubuntu has like other commercial services they offer, what bout FreeBSD? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- motific · 2023-06-04 11:48 It is a little-known fact that the FreeBSD Foundation is a front corporation for a Peruvian alpaca smuggling cartel. With support from the CIA they secretly took over the project in the 90’s and continue to use it to launder funds from illicit alpaca sales. They may say different on their website though, what did you find when you used a search engine? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JustAnAlpacaBot · 2023-06-04 11:48 Hello there! 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Chemical use is decreased. ______ | [Info](https://github.com/soham96/AlpacaBot/blob/master/README.md)| [Code](https://github.com/soham96/AlpacaBot)| [Feedback](http://np.red dit.com/message/compose/?to=JustAnAlpacaBot&subject=Feedback)| [Contribute Fact](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=JustAnAlpac aBot&subject=Fact) ###### You don't get a fact, you earn it. If you got this fact then AlpacaBot thinks you deserved it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- concmap · 2023-06-04 22:46 That's the neat part. They dont. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7yearlurkernowposter · 2023-06-05 01:24 I give them money every year because without the skills I learned from this project I would be dead or homeless by now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- joscher123 · 2023-06-05 06:49 I heard Apple donates $5 once in a while ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PaluMacil · 2023-06-05 13:17 I looked up how much total revenue they make from donations recently and realized it's not enough to even hire a whole team. They really are a volunteer effort and what they've accomplished is pretty amazing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EtherealN · 2023-06-06 15:53 Well, there's money, and there's labour. There are companies that will give people fulltime jobs to make FreeBSD better. Because they need it for their products. And it's easier to make upstream better than constantly backport your stuff. Basically, money spent on FreeBSD development can also be found on payrolls not part of the FreeBSD foundation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PaluMacil · 2023-06-06 17:32 Absolutely, but it's such a small amount even then compared to Linux. Yet the BSD community is vibrant and in a lot of cases, a BSD distribution is a lot more coherent and uniform throughout compared to Linux. I know there are a lot of people working on all of the BSDs, and I know the amount of work that has already gone into them over the decades is quite significant. However, when you compare what they accomplish and the donated time and money to other platforms with massive multi-billion dollar inputs, I just feel very thankful for what has been accomplished and what continues to be accomplished. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EtherealN · 2023-06-07 09:59 > it's such a small amount even then compared to Linux. Yet the BSD community is vibrant and in a lot of cases, a BSD distribution is a lot more coherent and uniform throughout compared to Linux. I don't have hard data to support it, but I strongly suspect that that last thing is, in no small part, because the community is smaller. Linux seems to have a bit of a "too many chefs" problem sometimes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jaypatelani · 2023-06-12 05:21 BSD projects earn from Anime "BSD" all merchandise earning goes towards BSD operating system development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FrogPeopleFrog · 2023-06-18 06:11 all the serious community members left after the coc and only a unstable joke reminds its getting to be more linux than linux, i cant pull any big pkgs without pulse being installed also ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FrogPeopleFrog · 2023-06-18 06:12 why did they sabatodge their own project with a coc freebsd is like mozilla or gnoem, a puppet organization with aims of destroying itself ---------------------------------------------------------------------- grahamperrin · 2023-06-19 19:32 Get with it, daddy-o. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- grahamperrin · 2023-06-19 19:36 [How does FreeBSD (Foundation?) make money? : freebsd](https://old.red dit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1409oyw/how_does_freebsd_foundation_make_mo ney/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MakingHange · 2023-06-20 23:12 What's coc? Code of conduct? What about it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MakingHange · 2023-06-22 14:56 What's coc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FrogPeopleFrog · 2023-06-25 02:35 code of conduct cia sabatodging 101 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MakingHange · 2023-06-25 07:22 How old are you? I'm guessing you're older than me. I'm 17.