Slashdot Story Helps Raise $43,200 For the FreeBSD Foundation In Three Days 84
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Foundation has posted blog article article talking about the remarkable surge in donations they've received in the last three days following a recent Slashdot article reporting on weak fundraising this year. Deb Goodkin reports that the FreeBSD Foundation, as with many non-profits, receives more than 50% of its annual funds at the end of the US tax year, but that the Foundation has never seen this rate of donations before, and will hit a new record for unique donors this year. She comments that it was Slashdot readers that made the difference! She does, however, appeal for further donations noting that they have a long way to go on their full goal."
Slashdot editor arrogance (Score:2, Insightful)
It takes a lot of arrogance to assume that Slashdot alone was the reason for those donations. It's okay to take some credit, but I read about this issue on Hacker News and other outlets a full day before I read it on Slashdot.
Re:Exaggeration (Score:4, Insightful)
Sorry to derail your point a bit but the rest of the world is very far left compared to the US.
What the US calls left and right the rest of the world calls right and far right.