Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 19:12:26 -0500 (EST) From: Branson Matheson <branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hsu@cs.hut.fi, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, witr@rwwa.com Subject: Re: BSD Consortium? Message-ID: <199503090012.TAA24624@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199503082133.QAA03120@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Mar 8, 95 04:33:28 pm
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> Terry Lambert writes:
> >
> > > I'll promise to donate $100 of my own, and, say $400 of my company money to
> > > BSD (or Free operating system) Consortium if one will ever be set up to get
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> > To keep the ball rolling, I could probably come up with $500 as well
> > (but I'd want a T-shirt or a cloisoine Daemon pin and a nice "charter
> > member" certificate or something). 8-).
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> $500 here also if we can agree on the charter for the organization.
I think that this is an excellent idea... It would certianly add strength
to the BSD position. It could also bolster the use of the *BSD's through
compatability if this remains a goal. But most importantly, I think that
because we will have a ( drum roll pleae ) NAME behind us collectively,
it will apply some needed credibility in the eyes of potential users. The
products that have been created are becomming truly stable and reliable
os's. Having a consortium may also give potential comercial software
creators more reason to write/port software to the os's.
Count me in for 100.00 (I am not as rich as the rest of yall ;-)
-branson
PS> I could also talk to _many_ other users that have started using FreeBSD
and prefer it and who would be interested in membership.
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