NetBSD Foundation Now 501(c)(3) Classified

ap writes "The NetBSD Project announced today that The NetBSD Foundation Inc. is now classified as an Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) publicly-funded non-profit organization. Donations to the Foundation by U.S. taxable entities are now fully tax-deductible. More information can be found at netbsd.org/donations."

Now, at last a real charity!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I don't have to waste my money feeding starving kids in Africa.

Re:Now, at last a real charity!

[gkelman]

Yeah spend it on apple kit instead.

Re:Now, at last a real charity!

[dasunt]

Now, at last a real charity!
Now I don't have to waste my money feeding starving kids in Africa.

Vim user, huh?

Paypal donations link?

[a.koepke]

I think someone forgot to actually test the donations page or even look at it after creating it.

To donate using PayPal, start here: <form> <input></input> <input></input> <input></input> <input></input> <input></input> <input></input> <input></input> </form>

What the heck is that meant to be?

Re:Paypal donations link?

[jschauma]

There was a problem with the site being recreated from the xml sources using not-quite-up-to-date tools. That's quite unfortunate. Anyway, it's been fixed in the mean time.

Re:Paypal donations link?

[craig2787]

They need donations to be able to pay someone to fix the code.

Faith-based too?

[orthogonal]

Given the strong, almost religious feelings of OS-zealots, now that George W. Bush is advocating giving Federal money to religious ("faith-based") organizations, why not just declare BSD to be a religion (and the various *BSDs sects of that religion), and grab the Federal funds directly?

Imagine a "faithed-based" rehabilitation program run not by the Baptists or the Catholics, but by open source BSD zealots: "Joe, you can over come your Microsoft addiction if you just follow this 12-step program:

• First, admit that you are powerless over Microsoft -- and thanks to their OSes, your life has become unmanageable.
• Second, believe in a higher power: the Regents of the University of California.
• Third, decide to use Richard Stallman's tool set.
• Fourth, make a searching and fearless moral inventory of your hard drive for Microsoft products, then
• Five show yourfaith by running fdisk on your MS-Windows partitions.
• ....

Re:Faith-based too?

[Spunk]

With all the dying they do, I hope the BSDs have faith in resurrection.

Wait. You do it wrong.

[Anonymous Coward]

Third, decide to use Richard Stallman's tool set.

Except for gcc & related progs, the BSDs do not use gnu tools.

Funny post, though.

Re:Wait. You do it wrong.

[orthogonal]

Except for gcc & related progs, the BSDs do not use gnu tools.

True story: as I was writing the post, I wanted to work in Stallman for the humor, but I wasn't sure if or to what extent the *BSDs used the GNU tool-chain. So I headed over to the bsd irc channel (irc.freenode.net/bsd) and asked. No one answered, so I just decided to go with it.

It's been several hours now, and still no one's answered it. Maybe that means BSD is dying? ;)

Re:Wait. You do it wrong.

[Anonymous Coward]

There's some differences between the BSDs, but here are the
programs and libraries in FreeBSD's /usr/src/gnu as of 4.9-RELEASE:

as awk bc binutils cc
cpio csu cvs dc dialog
diff diff3 gperf grep groff
gzip ld libdialog libg++ libg2c
libgcc libgcc_r libgmp libmp libobjc
libreadline libregex libstdc++ man patch
perl ptx rcs sdiff send-pr
sort tar texinfo uucp

Re:Wait. You do it wrong.

[Anonymous Coward]

a) Perl isn't strictly GNU tool as far as I know.

b) The version of 'dialog' that comes with FreeBSD has a different featureset (like --prgbox) from that available on Linux. Does that mean that Linux doesn't use GNU dialog, or that 'dialog' forked somewhere?

Re:Wait. You do it wrong.

[bccomm]

All the BSDs use the GNU toolchain (binutils, gcc, gdb, ...) and whatever else they don't have a BSD-licensed alternative for. They copy the sources and modify them in their own cvs tree. This explains why dialog may have modifications to it.

Re:Faith-based too?

[Anonymous Coward]

Unlike Lunix, BSD doesn't have an obsession with Stallman's tool (set).

and Europe ? :)

[bsdcow]

I hope we will be able, someday in Europe, to give money to NetBSD and other open source projects like GNU while having the money we give substracted from our taxes. In the end, each euro or dollar we put into open source is dedicated to everyone, the whole community but also all users ! :) I hope someone is checking about this for Europe.