On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 08:53:43AM +1000, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: > > We don't really have a mechanism for that, cause we don't have a path > > for that money. If you want to save up some money, there is: > > I have a feeling that Dragonfly is cutting itself out of extra funding and > possibly developers. > > A lot of people might want to donate money for tax reasons.
For deduce taxes from donations, the dragonfly project needs create a non-profit organization and this is something complex and time consuming. > > For example Minix3 that just went BSD, i looked at their website and they > are paying at least 2-3 full time developers. "MINIX 3 won a grant from the European Research Council for (euro) 2.5 million to further research in highly reliable operating systems". IIRC they don't need create a non-profit for win a grant like this. Other projects like PyPy have similar grants from the goverment of European Union. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
