The FreeBSD Foundation is a

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-based 501(c)(3) registered

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organization dedicated to supporting the

FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular ...

project, its development and its community. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations, and is used to sponsor developers for specific activities, purchase hardware and network infrastructure and provide travel grants to developer summits. The FreeBSD Foundation is able to provide legal representation to sign contracts and agreements on behalf of the FreeBSD project, and also holds the FreeBSD

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and related

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. The FreeBSD Foundation received initial 501(c)(3) charity status on December 7, 2000, and the Foundation was formally announced to the world on June 27, 2001.

Board of Directors

The current Board of Directors is as follows: * Justin T. Gibbs, President and Founder * Benedict Reuschling, Vice President * Kevin Bowling, Secretary * Dr.

Marshall Kirk McKusick Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 ...

, Treasurer * Dr. Hiroki Sato, Director * Andrew Wafaa, Director * Dr. Robert N. M. Watson, Director

References

External links

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