Re: FreeBSD financing

On 06/11/22 08:58, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> I looked at FreeBSD site and see this year very low financing (year 
> still not ended but is close) relative to former years.

AFAIK most donations happen in the last few weeks of the year, so the 
fact that the donation counter is relatively low in November is no 
indication. As far as I can remember it's always been like that.

I don't have hard data on this, except my own memory and remembering 
various articles on the internet in the past year declaring the project 
dead based on donation count at similar times, when the counter jumped 
towards the end of the year.

There are also some reasons why donations arrive at end of year. Only at 
that time big donors (and smaller ones too) have an idea IF they have 
money to donate, and IF they will be able to reap the fiscal advantage 
such donations can give.

So any such worries should be postponed and reviewed around December, 31st.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>