From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 06:41:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA06387 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 06:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from DATAPLEX.NET (SHARK.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA06364 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 06:41:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [199.183.109.242] by DATAPLEX.NET with SMTP (MailShare 1.0fc5); Tue, 19 Dec 1995 08:41:37 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 08:41:39 -0600 To: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary D. Kline) From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: What ever happened to... ? Cc: gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com, scrappy@hub.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk kline@tao.thought.org (Gary D. Kline) wrote: >According to Jordan K. Hubbard: >> >> > order code: bsd-mug >> > price: $9.95 >> > shipping & handling: $5.00 >> > >> > Walnut Creek already have them :-) > That's like going into Fry's for a couple of SIMM's > and some Pepsi! (for anybody who's lived in California...) > > I prob'ly will order the mug evventually, but I'd sooner > see some of the profit go toward _this_ cause. The same > sentiments are why I order things from the NPR/PBS > catalogs. Gary, You are way off base here. Walnut Creek provides SIGNIFICANT support for the FreeBSD project. 1) They supply development hardware. 2) They supply Internet connectivity. and 3) They pay the salary of Jordan to work FULL TIME on FreeBSD. Frankly, I don't see how they are making enough on all the FreeBSD materials to provide this much support and still break even on the P&L statement. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net