Although the operating system and its portable components are used in commercial products, De Raadt says that little of the funding for the project comes from the industry: "traditionally all our funding has come from user donations and users buying our CDs (our other products don't really make us much money).
虽然操作系统及其可移植的组件广泛应用于商业产品，德·若特却表示，商业公司几乎没有给予它们任何资金支持：“传统上，我们的资金全都来自于用户的捐赠和用户购买的CD（其他产品并不赚钱），显然，这点钱并不多。