“One of the main reasons that I’m so involved with open source is that I’ve always been fascinated by figuring out how things work. In this interview, John Baldwin of the FreeBSD project gives some insight on what it is like to be a FreeBSD developer and some of the things that happen behind the scenes of a large open source project.”
Hmm, 4 questions later and it’s over. I found that the questions asked weren’t even that interesting.
There must be more that could have been asked.
Otherwise, an interesting note would be that the Weather Channel runs FreeBSD on some of their systems which is pretty neat I suppose.
Overall, I wish there was more to this interview. Perhaps he was busy and this was all John B could offer up time wise.
Until next time I guess.
Yes, to short. And I’d like to hear more on Weather Channel and Yahoo for as far as I know they also use FreeBSD on some of teir servers.
Given the OpenBSD funding woes, I was looking at how the other BSDs get their cash. As far as I can tell, FreeBSD gets the majority of its cash through the FreeBSD Foundation. Looking at their financial statements:
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/2006%20Q1%20Prof…
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/Foundation%202005~*~…
it appears that they have been running in the red for sometime now. To me it looks like there could be some financial problems coming up in the near future.
Perhaps I’m missing the whole picture, does anyone have some insight into this?
The Foundation paid for consulting leading up to getting certified Java 1.5 binaries which accounts for the big portion of that “extra” expense.
Looking at the 2005 balance sheet or Q1 2006 balance shee should let you know that there is no big worry. The foundation can’t keep spending money like Q1 forever (unless donations are up too ofc) but now that the Java issue is mostly sorted I doubt that will continue. Besides all they have to do is ask and the money will come flowing in.
I read the interview 2 weeks ago when it was first released. Why post such old news?
Why don’t you submit the link when you read it to OSNews to help it stay recent?
Well, if osnews wants to become a link directory… oh, wait…
“Why don’t you submit the link when you read it to OSNews to help it stay recent?”
Because it was too short back then and is still too short today?
It’s fantastic to see companies like Yahoo, Weather Channel and such doing their part in making BSD successful.
This is the sort of thing which really is GOOD PR. More good companies please stand up =)