Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 11:32:11 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly), Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <10463.889093931@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 02:33:44 PST." <199803051033.CAA16565@rah.star-gate.com>
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In message <199803051033.CAA16565@rah.star-gate.com>, Amancio Hasty writes: >> In message <199803051009.CAA16357@rah.star-gate.com>, Amancio Hasty writes: >> >> Quite frankly, I don't think we would be able to spend more than about >> >> $1M/y efficiently. Anything above that would get us a lot less bang/buc >k. >> >> And even $1M may be too high for our ability. >> > >> >At about $100, 000 per engineer and a cheap one at that we can easily sp >end >> >a $1M/year . $1M/year would probably buy us about 7 engineers if we want >> >to give them offices . If people are wondering if I am pitching for >> >a salaried position --- I am not . >> >> I think people would happily do it for $80.000 if they could avoid offices. > >Nope, $100, 000 is about right . insurance , equipment , phone calls . >In fact we can probably spend more than $1M/year : > >equipment -- computers for testing, engineering, and ports group >communication cost including phone system or calls. >test group >porting group >engineering group >marketing group --- we don't want to go around doing this telethon thingy > every year. >sales --- well the sky is the limit on this one. Do that and you'll find the bandwagon has plenty of space all of sudden. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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