From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 10 09:43:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E31B16A418 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:43:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113D113C4EA for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:43:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JUF00A7A9NQO5T0@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:43:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0A9guv6058783; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:42:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:42:56 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <4785D9CB.5080909@gmail.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-id: <4785E8A0.30806@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 References: <88854.1199953554@critter.freebsd.dk> <4785D9CB.5080909@gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080104) Cc: Dominic Fandrey , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:43:07 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <478556AD.6090400@bsdforen.de>, Dominic Fandrey >> writes: > >>> The first problem is [...] >> No. > >> The first problem FreeBSD has, is that the users do not >> financially support enough full-time developers. > > There are some possible solutions to the lack of funding without > having to ask corps for huge donations (they would actually improve > the amount of contributed work also in all likellyhood.... see my > blog > http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php) > Forgot to mention that the approach outline is fairly compatible with the BSD style of doing stuff (one of the other people involved with the effort is actually drafting a BSD style license that is 100% compatible with the current one (Free)BSD license)... see devel/thistest (the only reason for no binary distribution is I require explicit acceptance of the license terms... besides syncing the distfiles with the current version is easier this way) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHheigjRvRjGmHRgQRAnXiAJ9p9+vbX1T4ECvq4vQRvBAJ3uy9QwCfWOXJ UlEe2tcs/J6VztJYk6/i0lY= =75ky -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----