From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 14 09:21:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29386 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:21:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from root.com (root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29373 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@root.com) Received: from root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA15317; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:21:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811141721.JAA15317@root.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: Kirk Fort , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD finances In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:00:40 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:21:40 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>Is there any place online where I could find information or a financial >>report for the freeBSD project. Just roughly how much $ goes into the >>project and where the $ is spent. Is the FreeBSD project a non-profit >>organization or is it incorporated or what? > >FreeBSD, Inc is well... incorporated. It is not a non-profit. I doubt the >information you seek is readily available but I think someone who knows >wouldn't mind sharing financial info with the public. Money? What money? Other than a very small amount of donations (a few thousand dollars) that is spent on a few pieces of hardware, there isn't any money. ...but Jason is right - private organizations aren't obligated to disclose this information. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message