Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:17:07 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, dm@globalserve.net, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? Message-ID: <199903230317.TAA26706@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903221915490.423-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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:3) I personally think that $25,000 would very easily be raised,
:especially when companies using FreeBSD can make targeted donations
:towards a goal that they would very clearly benefit from (nfs). I think
:the amount that could be gathered in, say, one month will probably
:surprise everyone (I'm not trying to hold you to $25,000 here, because I
:think that might well be too small a guess).
:
:4) This wouldn't even have to be completely restricted to nfs, but it
:would have to be restricted to a very small, well defined problem set,
:of general interest. The funds collected would have to be funnelled
:into a fund whose goals are not general, but specific to this effort.
It isn't quite so easy. It's one thing to raise money to hire
a programmer familiar enough with the code to be able to fix the
problems. *Finding* that programmer is a whole different deal, and
if you make a mistake that's $25K down the drain.
-Matt
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