From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 17:28:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F41C1065686 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:28:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f49.google.com (mail-qw0-f49.google.com [209.85.216.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02948FC23 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:28:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwi2 with SMTP id 2so1438840qwi.8 for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:28:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bNotOEBmmDuaOQVFnG6V9ILrMyQgzoKqP6ZgjcXAdcY=; b=U/ApdwbdJp66jotMNkQ7ctasJusOA4QirlH4t6W1E+kHlP26fWoaetbzlK4abfY6W3 o0iUac36p9aN6xtmQ3rpRwjrCLvRCZq0NTWj0tsbO6kuCFt6n5rMdAhJuUI/ebviuuYZ TPn2q6Vfgm2NOlGzBJkG0XlBbYEPoivpTrom4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.218.132 with SMTP id hq4mr70460qab.192.1314898086016; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.37.83 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:28:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110819154638.GA75879@over-yonder.net> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:28:05 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problems/solutions: voting system & marketing surveys X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:28:07 -0000 On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Vadim Goncharov w= rote: > Hi Matthew D. Fuller! > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:46:38 -0500; Matthew D. Fuller wrote about 'Re: Fr= eeBSD problems/solutions: voting system & marketing surveys': > >>> =A0 In other words, Foundation must act as an intermediate party >>> =A0 between those who will work and those who will pay for concrete >>> =A0 tasks set up by e.g. core@ or by user suggestions/need. >>> >>> Why it was not done earlier? >> Actually, it's my understanding that there are significant legal >> issues which prevent the Foundation from acting in this way (taking >> targetted donations, acting as an escrow party on specific bounties). > > If that is the only issue, there must be workaround for this. Circumventi= ng > such legal stoppers for good things is what lawyers are paid for. > > But I am from other country and don't know American law, that is task for > someone living in USA. > > The possible solution is: a developer and company agree privately, then > a company donates needed sum to Foundation, and developer signs contract = with > Foundation for the project as usual, just the sum is known to developer a= s > befor. Foundation does not need to know anything about developer/company > relationship here. > > At the very last, if that couldn't be solved with Foundation at all, it i= s > possible to do alternative solution: a web page (subdomain of freebsd.org= ?) > where ideas and tasks are sorted by priority, there are listed customers > and volunteers for each, may be price, and of course contacts: way for th= em > to meet and be paid outside Contract work (what's being described above) can be done through commercial entities like iXsystems: http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdsupport . Thanks! -Garrett