From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 5 21:58:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A461065674 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:58:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8738FC18 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:58:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0D9509C7; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:42:29 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uTA58wxafMjM; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:42:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 84B96509B5 ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:42:28 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <49B04737.2080304@langille.org> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:42:15 -0500 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: james michael References: <2E84A46F-C21C-43F3-AF2E-2B8115A0B888@hmallett.co.uk> <49B02F3E.9040002@gmail.com> <49B03EC0.6070106@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49B03EC0.6070106@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Bounties X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:58:22 -0000 Please, do not top post. Thank you. james michael wrote: > Hmm, well I guess I might have jumped the gun a bit. I can see how it > could be useful. I don't really believe that open source software should > have a price when it comes to drivers and things like that. The software does not have a 'price'. The work does. If someone is paid to work on the software, and it is open source, why do you care? Many people are paid to work on open source software. Perhaps more than you are aware of. > There are a > lot of sites like this one in the aspect of paying programmers to write > software, none of them directed at any one OS. I don't see the point in > directing this site to freebsd. All the freebsd drivers should be open > source and Libra. It is directed at FreeBSD because the site owners wanted it so. They saw a need and are attempting to fill it. Quite simple. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/