The money is used to buy equipment, services, pay for travel expenses for developer meetings, and things like that. No one is getting paid to do this.NewGuy said:I think the argument "they're volunteers" isn't at all relevant for two reasons
1. The Foundation collects money to assist in FreeBSD development. If they're accepting funds then they don't get to also claim to be doing this solely out of the goodness of their hearts.
By that statement then Windows can't be taken seriously either as they have missed almost every deadline for every product and they ARE paid to do so. How many deadlines has Linux missed?If FreeBSD wants to be taken serious as a platform for serious developers, admins and professionals then they should act in the same manner.