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... organizing charity drives as Colin has done for years ... Say again?
Sorry, my original verbiage wasn't quite right - I was looking to see what year you started contributing to FreeBSD and came across some fundraising information but it doesn't look like it's really pertinent to the point - I've removed the sentence. Thank you for making the donation though; it really is a great gesture.
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Well, you certainly don't have to divulge anything, but it's not the charity that makes that so. Also, it occurs to me that if this were a truly charitable act (instead of a partially charitable act along with a plug for your business), then you would have done it and not told anyone, or at least you wouldn't have asked people to buy TarSnap at the end of your article. So, as long as you are marketing me your product…
I'm honestly taken aback by the poor taste of this comment. There's no such thing as a "partially charitable act", FreeBSD can use the help - Colin shouldn't feel compelled to disclose his company's financials because someone on the internet feels that he somehow deserves that information. I guess if you needed some sort of baseline by which to base your donation (assuming you actually intend to make one instead of j…
And the fact that it is a business making the donation means that it isn't personal information, it's information about the business, so I didn't think his response was a reasonable answer.
The reasonable answer is "I'm not telling," not "I'm not telling and it's none of your business because this is a personal charitable contribution," which it isn't.
I don't think it's a bad thing he's trying to help FreeBSD, or make a profit. I just don't feel the same reverence for the act that the other people in this thread seem to, particularly since I have no way to judge how much FreeBSD will make, or how much he will profit on the increased sales.
All in all a good PR stunt... whether it's all that charitable of an act, we'll never know.
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I'm honestly taken aback by the poor taste of this comment. There's no such thing as a "partially charitable act", FreeBSD can use the help - Colin shouldn't feel compelled to disclose his company's financials because someone on the internet feels that he somehow deserves that information. I guess if you needed some sort of baseline by which to base your donation (assuming you actually intend to make one instead of j…
I just think it's reasonable to ask how much he plans to have his business donate. And the fact that it is a business making the donation means that it isn't personal information, it's information about the business, so I didn't think his response was a reasonable answer. The reasonable answer is "I'm not telling," not "I'm not telling and it's none of your business because this is a personal charitable contribution,…
Well, that makes two of us!
When I contacted the FreeBSD Foundation to check that they had no objection to me announcing a donation this way, I gave them an estimate of how much they would receive if this didn't lead to more users signing up; but I'm certainly hoping that they'll get more than that.
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I'm honestly taken aback by the poor taste of this comment. There's no such thing as a "partially charitable act", FreeBSD can use the help - Colin shouldn't feel compelled to disclose his company's financials because someone on the internet feels that he somehow deserves that information. I guess if you needed some sort of baseline by which to base your donation (assuming you actually intend to make one instead of j…
I just think it's reasonable to ask how much he plans to have his business donate. And the fact that it is a business making the donation means that it isn't personal information, it's information about the business, so I didn't think his response was a reasonable answer. The reasonable answer is "I'm not telling," not "I'm not telling and it's none of your business because this is a personal charitable contribution,…
So the "charitableness" of each good act is now to be quantified, measured, and judged? This heralds the end of small kindnesses, heretofore reckoned one of life's great pleasures.
I'm a dedicated FreeBSD user and never see press like this; FreeBSD f'ing rocks and I think your idea is great. It's an excellent way to get some press and help the project financially.
Have you done any/many blog posts on the technology behind your service? It is put together very well and the copy on your website is professional, clear, and abundant. Great job.
I'm a dedicated FreeBSD user and never see press like this; FreeBSD f'ing rocks and I think your idea is great. It's an excellent way to get some press and help the project financially.
This may be a bit off topic from the actual post, but, I just looked at Tarsnap and think it is awesome (you got a customer out of this). Have you done any/many blog posts on the technology behind your service? It is put together very well and the copy on your website is professional, clear, and abundant. Great job.
I've written lots of blog posts which touch on various aspects of Tarsnap, but the two which fall most closely into the category "technology behind Tarsnap" are
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-12-14-how-tarsnap-uses-... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-05-09-scrypt-key-deriva...
A few others which sort of fall into that category are http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-29-high-performance-... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-11-10-tarsnap-public-be... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-04-18-tarsnap-prepaid-b...
As much as I like FreeBSD, and as much as I prefer the BSD license to the GPL, everytime I think about it, I reach the same conclusion: the BSD License is flawed. Because of the GPL, Linux has companies like Red Hat committing 25% of the new code base. Companies have to improve the product, and Linux can evolve without direct funding. The BSD license allows Apple and others to shamelessly rip code out of the product…
As much as I like FreeBSD, and as much as I prefer the BSD license to the GPL, everytime I think about it, I reach the same conclusion: the BSD License is flawed. Because of the GPL, Linux has companies like Red Hat committing 25% of the new code base. Companies have to improve the product, and Linux can evolve without direct funding. The BSD license allows Apple and others to shamelessly rip code out of the product…
Because of the GPL, Linux has companies like Red Hat committing 25% of the new code base. Companies have to improve the product, and Linux can evolve without direct funding. There's two routes for money to take: 1. People donate money to the FreeBSD Foundation, which then funds FreeBSD development. 2. People pay for RHEL, and then RedHat uses that money to fund Linux development. Is there really any significant diffe…
BSD benefactors get a good feeling and a word of thanks for their contribution.
The difference in the amounts of money received by both institutions shows how much are people willing to pay for the former vs. the latter.
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This may be a bit off topic from the actual post, but, I just looked at Tarsnap and think it is awesome (you got a customer out of this). Have you done any/many blog posts on the technology behind your service? It is put together very well and the copy on your website is professional, clear, and abundant. Great job.
Have you done any/many blog posts on the technology behind your service? I've written lots of blog posts which touch on various aspects of Tarsnap, but the two which fall most closely into the category "technology behind Tarsnap" are http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-12-14-how-tarsnap-uses-... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-05-09-scrypt-key-deriva... A few others which sort of fall into that category are htt…