Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:42:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What ever happened to... ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951211231655.222C-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <17079.818734449@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 1. The "BSD Consortium" or whatever proposed awhile back. Everyone > > was so eager to donate $$$, but then it just died. > > I have no idea, though I've finally provided details on donating to > FreeBSD itself for those interested, see: > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/submitters.html > > (it's also chapter 17 of the handbook). > > I haven't collected enough to buy so much as a disk drive yet, but > hope springs eternal. There are about 3-4 developers who could really > use development systems, and I'd certainly like to build them ones. > Why not have some sort of "registration" fee, or something similar with a different name, that gives some sort of "extra level of service" or something... Erk... The idea is some sort of fund raising in order to help support, hardware wise, those that are developing the OS, and/or drivers for it. For instance...someone here mentioned something about t-shirts and whatnot? That was the first I've ever heard about it, and the last. Or, how about a list of what is required, and approx. costs for it. Break it down according to some sort of "development group". Then, individuals could support those aspects that are important to them. Personally, if proper accounting procedures were put into place so that one were kept informed abotu how much money came in, and how much went to different projects, I'd be willing to "pay for support" in the way of development on the OS. *shrug* I don't know...how many ppl out there know enough to help Terry out with continuing the SMP development, but can't afford the hardware, or don't personally need it? Or, hey, here's one...who makes up the FreeBSD CDroms? how much does it cost to make them? how much of a markup do "resellers" put on them? how hard would it be to setup a network of "distributors" that are associated with "the Project" who basically keeps a limited stock of the CDroms available for resale, with "all profits going back to the Project"? Better yet, what would it take to make a CDrom distribution "in house" so that you could offer up to date distributions? And *takes deep breath* finally, how many ppl are using FreeBSD right now? Does anyone have any statistics on it? This is only meant to provide ideas, altho some are just possibly ridiculous... Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc
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