From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jul 25 6:51:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub4.isdnet.net (mailhub4.isdnet.net [195.154.209.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADE614EE7 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 06:51:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephane@libertysurf.fr) Received: from sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo ([195.154.24.4]) by mailhub4.isdnet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA81873; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 15:51:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from stephane@localhost) by sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA02881; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 13:42:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stephane) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 13:42:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199907251142.NAA02881@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> From: Stephane Legrand MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Gary D. Margiotta" Cc: Stephane Legrand , Kenneth Karlsson , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sv: FreeBSD Project looking for a switch In-Reply-To: References: <199907241320.PAA14163@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary D. Margiotta writes: > True, but that requires everyone to know about freebsdmall (granted, > everyone should, but... ;) )... > Yes, freebsdmall is unfortunately not known enough. > Howsabout a 'Donation subscription'?... I know personally I wouldn't mind > having a card billed, say $5 or $10 a month, or maybe $25 quarterly. > It's possible. At freebsdmall, you can also make this kind of donation. > Buying a subscription for the CD-ROMS is nice, however, it costs a lot in > time and material to make all of that, so the profit margin is very slim. > > The people who make FBSD work are donating a heckuva lot of their time and > resources for us all to be able to benefit from it. I think it's the > least we could do to offer what amounts to not even 15 minutes pay for > some of us on a consistent basis in order to keep this great project going > and working to be the best OS out there... > > Get even $1 from a thousand people per month (and I think that is only a > small fraction of how many people use it), and it suddenly turns into a > bigger chunk of change than you think... > > ______________________________________________________________ > -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-7855 > TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 835-4755 > http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net > > On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Stephane Legrand wrote: > > > Kenneth Karlsson writes: > > > > > > Why not make an online fundraising, with creditcard billing, i > > > would like to donate some $10, if that could help ... Maybe Walnut > > > Creek could help out here ?! > > > > > > > Go to http://www.freebsdmall.com/ and follow the link "Donate". > > > > Stephane Legrand. > > > -- Stephane.Legrand@bigfoot.com FreeBSD Francophone : http://www.freebsd-fr.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message