From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 5 19:18:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09240 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:18:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA09224 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:18:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 6716 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Mar 1998 03:26:24 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-021598 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980305115513.01043@follo.net> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 19:26:24 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: Donations. Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp , John Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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