What is the end of FreeBSD ?!

[Robert Downes]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>Notice the difference between these two approaches?  It means there's
>basically no chance that what happened with RedHat will ever happen to
>FreeBSD.
>  
>
No, but it surely is possible that the people that devote time to 
FreeBSD will be taken for granted, and will drift away from spending 
time on the project?

In fact, so disgusted am I with the thought of a Microsoft-dominated 
future, and so impressed am I with the FreeBSD system (and by that I 
mean the whole system, including the way code is offered up by 
volunteers who do it for the quality of the end result), that I'm going 
to donate $25 to the FreeBSD Foundation right now. And I'm unemployed, 
that's how much I like FreeBSD.

I no that money is a crappy donation, but I don't have any spare 
hardware, and I'm not a good enough programmer to offer any actual code 
(I'm currently 2/3 the way through a PHP forum  system, and I've stalled 
dead - anyone got any tips for getting past a stall like that?), but 
hopefully a bit of money will become something useful to the system.

The important point is that a donation is discretionary. My all-time 
favourite company, Microsoft, don't seem to realise that students, and 
teenagers, and the unemployed cannot fork out 180 GBP for a 
'professional' operating system, then 180 GBP for a 'professional' word 
processor (which does nothing that the 1997 version did, as far as most 
people can tell), and then XXX GBP for development software.

I hope that FreeBSD continues to be built by people who don't do it for 
money, because I really believe that free software is built more 
lovingly (sorry, I couldn't think of a better word) than commercial, 
factory-produced stuff. But a donation here and there can't hurt.

-- 
Bob