From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 19 9:19:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AC6152A7 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:19:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA05481; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:15:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904191615.JAA05481@implode.root.com> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin Cc: Wes Peters , Donald Wilde , Brett Taylor , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sites running FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:54:29 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:15:11 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > >> Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Donald Wilde wrote: >> > >> > > Actually, (sub rosa) they just sent a $25K donation to the FreeBSD >> > > Project. Buy some cards, guys, and let them know you appreciate their >> > > support! Evidently BillyG tried to muscle into their market with some of >> > > his typical roach-like tactics, and they won in court! >> > >> > Who exactly do we send the cards to? >> >> Core team members? The author of your favorite device driver? The >> person who fixed the last bug that was driving you crazy? Jordan? >> Bob Bruce? DG? etc. ;^) > > I know what commitment all of the above have to the FreeBSD project >and its success. That's not news to me. > > What I was looking for was who found the project deserving enough >to drop $25K on it. I doubt your telling me the core and possibly the >committers tossed $25K in a hat to pat themselves on the back for a job >well done. (Not that I wouldn't give such a pat myself any of the above >were in arms reach.) The context of all of this discussion seems to have been lost. The card company, Blue Mountain Arts gave the project $25K, and people are suggesting that we purchase electronic greeting cards from them in appreciation. Who you send them to is irrelevent. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message