Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 19:26:24 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <XFMail.980305192624.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <19980305115513.01043@follo.net>
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On 05-Mar-98 Eivind Eklund wrote: ... > My personal case: I want more input than I'd get working only on > FreeBSD proper. I'm not certain I'd do as good work on FreeBSD if I > had to work only on that 'forever'. But I still think being able to > buy 6 months of people's time would be a Good Thing. The only problem is our karnal nature. Based on what we see so far, can you imagine the mehem once core member X gets 30% of the budget for his/her pet project, while developer Y gets nothing. As much as I wanted to help and triggered much of this debate, I almost regret doing it. I think setting realistic goals and changing (some) of the progress from ``I write what I please when I please'' to a plan layed out by -core, setting achievable goals and finding colunteers to participate in that effort, as subordinates rather than masters may move some stuff that is stuck now. I had a friend in another free software project that was involved in building a communications sattelite for the Ham Radio operators. He fascinated me with the details of how the different disciplines corrdinated to lift the thing into space and have it actually work. I apologize for forgetting your name, but you are probably listening... ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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