Handshake Donates $300k to Debian

Handshake Donates $300k to Debian

In 2018 the Debian project received a donation of $300,000 USD from Handshake, an organization developing an experimental peer-to-peer root domain naming system. The Handshake project, its sponsors and contributors recognize Free and Open Source Software as a crucial part of the foundations of the Internet and their project, so they decided to reinvest back into free software by gifting $10,200,000 USD to various FLOSS developers and projects, as well as non-profit organizations and universities that support free software development. The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free operating system Debian.

Source: www.debian.org