From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 21:24:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03265 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:24:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-18.netcom.ca [207.181.94.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03260 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id BAA09272; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 01:24:04 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 01:24:04 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bumper Stickers In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970317224747.0105fc58@mixcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > Reads like we crossed paths a bit. Let's say someone asks to make > something and it promotes FBSD, great! They make some profit, great! > After all, some recompense for the time and labor is in order. As to some > proceeds going to "the Project" that would have to be up to the supplier of > whatever. > Agreed...but considering that almost any "enterprise" I've seen here as far as paraphranelia(sp?) is concerned always seems to be attached with this underlying fear of making a profit off of it, why not expand things so that things like this work to both parties advantage? That's all I'm suggesting... > > Stuff like this a) provides advertising and b) could be used > >to finance hardware required to advance the cause (an Alpha server?) > > Or code to run on an Alpha? I heard that either NetBSD or OpenBSD were > "stale" and not really being developed, so.... Hmmm... > > I understand that mulitple processor support is a future thing... > SMP support is in 3.0-CURRENT right now, I believe...or, at least, the code is there for it...