From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 6 16:59:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (smtp4vepub.gte.net [206.46.170.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F391237B406; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-141.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.141]) by smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA50601901; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 23:59:13 GMT Message-ID: <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 19:59:12 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com, tedm@toybox.placo.com, ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <000701c10452$ca818600$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3B4560DD.428634F8@softweyr.com> <20010706020341B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010706142817.A61100@xor.obsecurity.org> <200107062140.f66LeF361632@whizzo.transsys.com> <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Yeah, and these all cost money, and are limited-appeal, so they're > likely to not make much money, especially if there are other vendors > doing similar things. The other side of the coin which I didn't > mention is that the FreeBSD distribution market probably isn't big > enough to support more than one or two vendors. To some extent that's > not our problem, unless they all collapse except for the bare-bones > vendors like CheapBytes who don't do anything to directly help the > project, in which case we've screwed ourselves out of funding. If the FreeBSD Foundation is an existing entity now, maybe we can just change the license for the CD images to "not for resale" unless the distributor signs an agreement with the Foundation ? -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message