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Old April 5th, 2010, 18:49
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Decided to put my money where my mouth is (I could be dead tomorrow ).

Donated.
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Old November 28th, 2010, 13:10
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I just donated $20 to the FreeBSD foundation.
Did you?
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Old December 6th, 2010, 07:58
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Yes, definitely because i love FreeBSD a lot!
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It's that time of the year; time to think about what has happened, what I have done, and what tools I have used. FreeBSD is one such tool, so it is with a happy heart I donate a small amount of money to the FreeBSD Foundation. And to all involved with FreeBSD; thank you!
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Old February 12th, 2011, 00:54
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Smile FreeBSD is worthy of support
I am a beginner programmer with most of my computing experience with MS.
A friend convinced me to try openSUSE, so I unfortunately did. I inadvertantly stumbled upon this site while searching in Wikipedia for an OS that would lend itself to a Helios system.

Immediately noticeable is this site was intelligently organized and easy to negotiate. The forum setup is also top-notch. PC-BSD has been successfully installed on an old, Pentium III Dell I picked out of the garbage in front of the house, and upgraded it to 512MB RAM and a 64MB video card! I did some poking around and was quite pleased it ran a DVD movie perfectly without the need for codecs. Overall, I am quite impressed.

I have only supported one free supplier in the past when I needed some code for a website. I did not even get a thank you!

For the above reasons, and if all goes well with experimenting with FreeBSD, I will be making a donation. I may also purchase a programming manual as soon as I find one. I thought I saw something but forgot what and where it was.
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I am a beginner programmer with most of my computing experience with MS.
A friend convinced me to try openSUSE, so I unfortunately did. I inadvertantly stumbled upon this site while searching in Wikipedia for an OS that would lend itself to a Helios system.

Immediately noticeable is this site was intelligently organized and easy to negotiate. The forum setup is also top-notch. PC-BSD has been successfully installed on an old, Pentium III Dell I picked out of the garbage in front of the house, and upgraded it to 512MB RAM and a 64MB video card! I did some poking around and was quite pleased it ran a DVD movie perfectly without the need for codecs. Overall, I am quite impressed.

I have only supported one free supplier in the past when I needed some code for a website. I did not even get a thank you!

For the above reasons, and if all goes well with experimenting with FreeBSD, I will be making a donation. I may also purchase a programming manual as soon as I find one. I thought I saw something but forgot what and where it was.
http://freebsd.org/handbook
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The stock market has been treating me extremely well so I donated $500.
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we donate: "http://forum.lissyara.su/ community"
we trying make donate in this year
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I never made a donation because I have no paypal. But I want to make one and then probably I will donate too. I have no job so not enough money but I could give 10-20 euro.
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I'm strapped for actual cash these days, but I am capable of helping by using my bandwidth. I won't be stopping the 8.2-RELEASE torrents until they cross 1TB of upload.
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Does everyone bill their customers for FreeBSD installations. I don't have customers yet but when; they will be billed to financially support FreeBSD.
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Not yet, but I will...I want buy some books from FreeBSD Mall
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Old May 1st, 2011, 21:12
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I just donated $10 today May 1, 2011.
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I would if I had a job...hopefully my recent FreeBSD experience will help toward that end.
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I never made a donation because I have no paypal. But I want to make one and then probably I will donate too. I have no job so not enough money but I could give 10-20 euro.
I always used CC without paypal account. They do support CC http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
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Old May 2nd, 2011, 22:45
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I'm strapped for actual cash these days, but I am capable of helping by using my bandwidth. I won't be stopping the 8.2-RELEASE torrents until they cross 1TB of upload.
That's pretty cool. Use your plebian pipes!
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I have donated to freshports, and have our own repo which we share with others so in a way I am donating by not using the official repo, will make a point to donate when I get paid this month.
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I've donated personally in the past, but hopefully when the fiscal year ends I can make a larger donation from my company.
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I've donated FreeBSD Foundation today. It was only 5$, but hope that in the future I shall donate much more. It worth!
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Yes, it is nice to get a reminder now and then. I've donated today!
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You can set up automatic yearly contributions. No need for reminders
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Just donated, still trying to sell the idea to my partners to donate as a company. One thing that I think would help though is (at least in this margin driven world) if the goal is 400K, 1K would be a significant donation, for at least some if not many, which is evident by the donors in the 1k-5k ranges being about 12 every year, give that donor range an icon/link

For some of us is love, others have calculators.

Have yourselves a merry X-mas and a happy new year.
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As of the question -- I haven't donated to FreeBSD Foundation yet, however I personally contribute to the FreeBSD project
If I ever get to a position to afford to spend some reasonable money, I will gladly donate to the FreeBSD Foundation. I am currently a student and have a limited cashflow.

Other more important bills such as celluar phone at nearly 100 USD due to being a heavy mobile data user and lack of self control on purchases are stunting me in the donation department. Damn
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I've noticed the list of donors gets shorter and shorter every year:
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml
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That doesn't mean that less money is raised. I also see that my recurring yearly donation (each July) hasn't even registered yet, so it's not up to date.
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