From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 8 16:13:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA27049 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:13:23 -0800 Received: from dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (dvals1.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.4.96]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA27043 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:13:16 -0800 Received: by dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.9/server2.4) id TAA24624; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 19:12:27 -0500 Message-Id: <199503090012.TAA24624@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> From: Branson Matheson Subject: Re: BSD Consortium? To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 19:12:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hsu@cs.hut.fi, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, witr@rwwa.com In-Reply-To: <199503082133.QAA03120@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Mar 8, 95 04:33:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1580 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 > > > 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-). > > $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. -- MATHESON, E BRANSON E.B.MATHESON@LaRC.NASA.GOV Mail Stop 931 COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION NASA Langley Research Center Assigned to Operations Support Division Hampton, VA 23681-0001 Phone +1 804 864-9700