Crowdfunded before it was cool to be crowdfunded ================================================ Back in 2004 I did six months of crowdfunded work on FreeBSD, waaaay before it was cool to be crowdfunded. I wrote about this in an article for ACM Queue `Quality Software Costs Money, HEARTBLEED was free `_ Here is the `original solicitation page `_. Here is the `original status log `_, written at the time to keep the crowd informed. *phk*