From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 3 20:50:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21104 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:50:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21067 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:50:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10538; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:20:07 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA22168; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:20:07 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980304152007.09812@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:20:07 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Amancio Hasty Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? References: <199803040358.TAA02545@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803040358.TAA02545@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 07:58:12PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (moved to -chat) On Tue, 3 March 1998 at 19:58:12 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Nate Williams wrote: >> >>>> Wandering , if we can get a grant from the goverment to support the SMP >>>> project or to support FreeBSD ? >>> >>> The government has no money for such things anymore. >> >> There is some money flowing into academia. The NSF digitial >> library initiative is handing out about US$50 million this year. >> Unfortunately, SMP devolpment would be on the fringes of their >> agenda specified in their request for proposals. > I must have a cool SMP in order to support tera bytes libraries, > how else will I drive giganets with PCs, Cool if we get funding > we can drive Internet II , etc... > > I know that there is money flowing around we need a couple of > guys that know they way around Washington to get the money. > Incidently, FreeBSD goverment backing is not restricted to the US 8) Well, I think you should keep quiet about it. What you want is some Bay Area newspaper to point out that currently Finland outstrips the US regarding operating system development, and that the US Government is doing nothing to remedy the situation. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message