From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 19:34:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C9516A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:34:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B8F43D5A for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:34:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iBNJYBJo091973; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBNJY9Xm019886; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:34:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iBNJY8bj019885; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:34:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:34:08 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Troy Mills Message-ID: <20041223193408.GA19673@thought.org> References: <200412230046.39559.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Foundation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:34:14 -0000 On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:11:14AM -0500, Troy Mills wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt explained it far better then I could have and I thank > him for that. > > FreeBSD is an awesome thing indeed and one of the wonderful things is > thatit is indeed free to the end user but really nothing is totally > free, peoples time is worth something and the hardware they need to > continue to develop is also not free. It is very easy to take things > for granted. > > I know FreeBSD is _no where near_ going the way of the dodo but.. it > can only make things so much better for everyone if everyone chipped > in 5$ or whatever at least one time. Those who use this platform for > there own financial gain. i.e. corporate webservers etc.. should > really consider it as well. Buying CD's etc.. from freebsdmall.com > really helps as well, every little thing counts!. > if the freebsdfoundation set up a paypal button and asked $5, i'd chip in my niickle. i bet at least thousands of others would too. "season's greeting:)", everbody, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix