Hello According to netcraft there are 2.5 million webservers are running FreeBSD, http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearly_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html If each one of these sites gave a dollar each year that could fund a lot development. My thought was to create a mechanism, that allow users to pledge a certain amount of money for each time they access cvsup. This would be completely voluntary, of course. For example someone could pledge a dollar for a cvsup a copy of the src and 50 cents for ports. Each year or quarter the user will receive a summary of their cvs usage and the user will have the option of paying that amount or more or less, what ever they can afford at the time. It is more active method of seeking donations. Once the donation start coming in it can be reversed, to provide rewards for contribution to FreeBSD to reward the developers. The funds may help pay developers to task that need to be done but may require a little incentive to get them done. These is just an idea I have been pondering, I have not figured out how to implement it or how to deal with the politics.
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