From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 5 05:04:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA08052 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 05:04:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA08044; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 05:04:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.1]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA14447; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 08:04:05 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 13:06:02 GMT Message-ID: <3508a2bd.2314100@mail.cetlink.net> References: <199803050739.IAA15827@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199803050739.IAA15827@sos.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAA08045 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 5 Mar 1998 08:39:38 +0100 (MET), Søren Schmidt wrote: >> Think in terms of a $10,000,000 (or more) budget per year and you will >> begin to see the light. > >That would be turning a volounteer project into a real business. Yes, and that's the next natural step in the evolution of freed software. Netscape will be a good test. >If you want a commercial BSD, go for BSDi.... Their business model is flawed. They charge for every copy, they charge extra for source, and they won't even give you *all* the source. That just won't fly in today's world of freed software -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message