From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 23 11:49:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364BF153D7 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:49:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA282096518; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:15:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:15:18 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: Emmanuel DELOGET Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Mail List Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? In-Reply-To: <199903231140.LAA28691@excalibur.oceanis.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Emmanuel DELOGET wrote: > Hey... I think I'm dreaming. You'd pay to have this NFS stuff > fixed ?!?!!? I don't think this fits very well with the spirit > of a free OS. Perhaps I'm wrong, but, if you pay someone (even > McKusick) to do this work, you may enter in a new land, where > committers would want to be paid to fix up little things. This > is crazy. Perhaps we'll have a 'letter to FreeBSD hobbyists' in > some days that woul say : Money talks. I will never ask to be paid for what I do for FreeBSD, but there are some things that are too big to expect volunteers to do. To paraphrase RFC1925: Time, talent, willingness: Pick any two. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message