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Re:WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation by lamby on Monday November 17, 2014 @05:08PM (#8620990)
> funded project development, through permanent staff and development contracts

Somewhat of an aside, how do you guys manage the relationship between volunteers and paid work? Mixing the two has a historically poor track record in the open source community (eg. Dunc Tank, etc. etc.)

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Re:WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation by cperciva on Monday November 17, 2014 @05:47PM (#8621227)
emaste may be able to give an "official foundation answer" for this question, but from what I've seen the Foundation employees do the work which everybody agrees is important but nobody wants to do -- like haswell video acceleration and release engineering.
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Re:WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation by evilgjb on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @12:04AM (#8622451)
Who would be crazy enough to want to work on release engineering?

:-)

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