From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 16 00:40:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA20910 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:40:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA20905 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:40:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA10372; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:06:22 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706160736.RAA10372@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: To UNIX or not to UNIX ;-). Was: PPP problems. In-Reply-To: <17474.866434930@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 15, 97 09:22:10 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:06:22 +0930 (CST) Cc: adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > If its as easy as saying "Pay me and I'll do it", then I will do it :-) > > I'm currently grabbing the stuff I missed on the -config list as Michael > > suggested, and I'll take a look at it when I've got some time this > > afternoon. > > I'm confused - are you offering money here or not? :) > > I think we have our leader already, now we just need to fund his work. I _really_ need to talk about how make the "funding" concept work. In particular, I need to sort out whether it's feasible to take people like Adrian here and sub-contract him to do some of the work. Is this viable? As the VC instigator, do you have any specific expectations about how the venture should be organised? > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[