Date: Mon, 13 Mar 95 18:38:34 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD Consortium Message-ID: <9503140138.AA05524@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9503132212.AA01770@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Mar 13, 95 04:12:59 pm
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> Does anyone know if the NetBSD people are interested in a consortium? > If not, the appeal is lessened... for me at least. The initial list of goals I put up shouldn't step on any directional toes, specifically to avoid any conflict between FreeBSD, NetBSD, or BSDI (or anyone else who would be interested). The one design issue, the "hardware scholarship", is equally usable by all three parties, since it doesn't mandate a source base that must be used to participate. I do, however, think that instead of just me throwing out ideas off the top of my head, a bit more participation is required at least by members of both core teams and (hopefully) BSDI to get something that is agreeably shaped. Assuming a representative presence on steering committies for choice of supported efforts, this shouldn't result in anyone being frozen out. Even the potential signing of non-disclosure and provision of binary only Adaptec 2xxx drivers (one of my examples -- not necessarily a suggested project) by the consortium to all groups would be welcome, I'm sure. I'm positive that NetBSD and BSDI have some cross-platform agendas that they'd like to see support for that FreeBSD could (currently) care less about, and vice versa. Perhaps the best place to discuss this would be as a cross-posting in the news groups? The last I heard, Jordan was looking into the legal stuff... any status on that? There was also that kind offer by a rather international lawyer of which we might try to avail ourselves. What is probably needed now is a stake in the ground and a statement of common goals that are to be coded into the bylaws in the articles of incorporation. I would definitely say that it wants to be a non-profit corp. to confer tax exempt status for itself and tax deductable status for contributions (at least in the US). Any ideas regarding status in other countries, and whether or not articles of incorporation need to be filed there as well? What did the X consortium do? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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