From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 8 17:57:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA01587 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 17:57:47 -0800 Received: from shell1.best.com (shell1.best.com [204.156.128.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA01581 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 17:57:46 -0800 Received: from geli.clusternet (rcarter.vip.best.com [204.156.137.2]) by shell1.best.com (8.6.10/8.6.5) with ESMTP id RAA12689; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 17:56:37 -0800 Received: (from rcarter@localhost) by geli.clusternet (8.6.10/8.6.9) id RAA28112; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 17:55:09 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 17:55:09 -0800 From: "Russell L. Carter" Message-Id: <199503090155.RAA28112@geli.clusternet> To: dufault@hda.com Subject: Re: BSD Consortium? Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk |From: Peter Dufault |Subject: Re: BSD Consortium? |To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) |Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:33:28 -0500 (EST) |Cc: hsu@cs.hut.fi, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, | witr@rwwa.com | |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 |> > rid of this mess. |> |> Actually, this was first considered some time ago, and was discussed |> at length by Robert Withrow, myself, and others. |> | |It must be in the air. I sent out a message about a FreeBSD |consortium the other day. It was eaten in the great mailing list |lossage; I don't know if anyone saw it or not. | |My point was (as it was the last time we discussed this) that when |I put together proposals that feature FreeBSD then a consortium |lends more credibility. For me, as well. | |> 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. Likewise. An excellent investment, I think. Russell Carter Geli Engineering 408-246-6905 Economical Workstation Clusters rcarter@geli.com