From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 20:23:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23084 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:23:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (207-172-239-225.s34.as8.rkv.erols.com [207.172.239.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23056 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:23:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA01681; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 23:25:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.ChrisBowman.com: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 23:25:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" To: John Kelly cc: Chuck Robey , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-Reply-To: <34fde4f8.40814877@mail.cetlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, John Kelly wrote: >On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:06:51 -0500 (EST), Chuck Robey > wrote: > >>If the only thing that you can see are wasted opportunities to make bucks, >>why are you involved with a volunteer OS? I personally think it's because >>you *like* messing around with FreeBSD ... isn't that so? >> > >It started as a hobby but now my interest is primarily for business >use. > >If FreeBSD developers don't want their "volunteer" project to grow >into a well funded organization, another group will come along who do. >And they can easily take all the work done by the poor volunteers and >call their own project BigBucksBSD or whatever they like. > >I expect there will be a market demand for this, and some enterprising >developers will step in to fill that demand. I don't mean to be rude here, and I don't want to start a flame fest, but I think some one has already done what you suggest and they call themselves BSDI. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com My home page To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message