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FreeBSD appreciates, but doesn't need donations like the OpenBSD foundation does. many FreeBSD committers are FTE for a number of commercial outfits and work on FreeBSD full time. OpenBSD has hackathons, that are funded by donations.

if you use both, consider donating to OpenBSD first.

if you use OpenSSH, consider donating more to OpenBSD :-)

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I'm a committer that works for such a commercial outfit, and I certainly don't get to work on FreeBSD full time (though I do work _with_ FreeBSD full time). Most of my contributions still come out of my spare time. I believe that's true for many others as well.

Please also note that while FreeBSD may have the bigger individual sponsors, the FreeBSD Foundation still relies on many small contributions as the tax-free non-profit status of the Foundation relies more on the number of contributors than the amount (at least that's how I understood it).

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