From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 22 19:17:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF0914DC8 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:17:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA26706; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:17:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:17:07 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199903230317.TAA26706@apollo.backplane.com> To: Chuck Robey Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Kevin Day , hasty@rah.star-gate.com, dm@globalserve.net, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message