FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50%

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Submission + - FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% (freebsdfoundation.org)

Submitted by TrueSatan on Sunday December 09, 2012 @11:25AM

TrueSatan writes: Perhaps a sign of our troubled times or a sign that BSD is becoming less relevant to modern computing needs: the FreeBSD project has sought $500,00 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.

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