From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 10:48:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1607A16A403 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:48:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD6113C4AC for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:48:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so11467wra for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:48:47 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZSf+pydkKKC+gD8PEAedRXrNkTwbk1lExcASjL8F3ddpEsPmaGs7I4JYv1nZfbBbrJxbhgT8tcU4zNbdaHniHUo0GJaN8VCeXApIA6GeMO/N9NgIAn1sBNYURi5qE/KnrED6gbRT4s0UT6lJPXQbX7Ww59qlFHOzWn8Jv3473KU= Received: by 10.78.17.4 with SMTP id 4mr47953huq.1168426126664; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:48:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.118.10 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:48:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:48:46 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "perryh@pluto.rain.com" In-Reply-To: <45a4a055.ENGhBM9hyCZ7EPyt%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45A2805E.7060000@ccstores.com> <20070109222558.GA75695@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070110003730.GA94711@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45A48414.5080009@freebsd.org> <45a4a055.ENGhBM9hyCZ7EPyt%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:48:48 -0000 On 1/10/07, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > "Nikolas Britton" wrote: > > > Maybe core needs to make it easier to direct are funds to the > > sub-projects of are choice and still qualify it as a deductible > > expense. > > For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just as > deductible as "contributions"? Hire someone qualified as your > own full- or part-time employee, and assign them to work on the > projects that you want to support. As just one example, that's > effectively Red Hat's entire operation AFAIK. > Interesting... I'm not sure the owner would go for it though. Maybe a 1099 contractor. Would anyone in the group at large be interested in arrangements such as this? What kind of money (rate) would you expect if you got payed to work on stuff your already working on in your spare time?