From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 9 05:10:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA17561 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 05:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from masternet.it (root@masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA17535 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 05:10:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from socrate.gea.org (ts1port4d.masternet.it [194.184.65.26]) by masternet.it (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA20657; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 13:07:16 +0200 Message-ID: <31BAA984.167EB0E7@masternet.it> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 12:37:56 +0200 From: Beck Peccoz Amedeo X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aaron D. Gifford" CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PONY UP! (was: The -stable problem: my view) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Aaron D. Gifford wrote: > Ideas: Why not add a web page or two on the www.freebsd.org site describing > how to contribute money, hardware, labor, etc? The page might suggest a > tiered donation scheme (perhaps something like $25, $50, $100, $200, $500, > $1000, etc. donations per install or upgrade) where donors are listed on How about requesting a fee to enter this mailing list? I've been really impressed on how FreeBSD is managed: people pay nothing (do you consider $14.95 more than nothing?) to receive at their homes a copy of a BSD Unix, and then they pay nothing (in the real meaning of "not a single dollar") to have FREE, QUICK and EASY assistance from THE CORE TEAM developing the system. Whoelse gives you such a service? Why we shouldn't pay for this? Where is it written that we have to be fully assisted for free? If we need/want the -stable not to die we have to pay. So let's pay and stop wasting bandwidth on the net with this subject. -- Beck-Peccoz Amedeo GEA Software S.r.l. Via Deffeyes, 1 11025 Gressoney Saint Jean (AO) ITALY Tel. ++39-125-366302 Fax. ++39-125-366415