Monday, December 20, 2004 |
11:16 - Now that's dedication
http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html
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Poul-Henning Kamp, FreeBSD developer, has been soliciting donations from private parties to help him work on FreeBSD full-time. He quotes a price that covers his mortgage and living expenses for himself and his family; surely a reasonable bargain, and apparently he's been very successful in raising money. More so than he's comfortable with, in fact.
But this part of his writeup really says a lot:
If the minimum amount, DKK99000 (USD16500/EUR13500) is not pledged/reached, I will not start the project and any money already transferred will either be returned or passed on to the FreeBSD foundation (according to the donors wishes).
If this becomes a great success I will consider continuing, but until I know how it works out, I want to be able to contain any damage inside the 2004 financial year.
So, I hit slash-dot with this, and that of course pointed out a couple of things I had not explained clearly enough:
These amounts are of course pre-tax. I operate my own registered one man company here in Denmark and I pay approximately 2/3 in tax, so the net result is that I will have approx DKK11000 (USD1775/EUR1475) per month to pay my mortgage and feed my kids.
Wow. That's a lot of tax. And on a single-person entrepreneurial company, no less. That's how Denmark fosters small business, is it?
Donate to the FreeBSD project! Support the Danish government!
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