Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:00:49 -0500 (EST) From: John Soward <soward@uky.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <XFMail.980303110439.soward@uky.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803031108.MAA22909@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On 03-Mar-98 Luigi Rizzo mentioned: >> > If the estimated number of users is correct, and each donated $10, >> > there'd be a cool $5M to improve FreeBSD. > >i thing these computation can be more realistic by asking WC how many >copies of 2.2.5 RELEASE they have sold... (not to mention that >i think some of the revenues for FreeBSD CDs already go into FreeBSD >development...) > We have a large investment in FreeBSD here at UK. Currently our primary campus web server uses it (~1000 users), and our news server...and in a few weeks our 3 2,000 user pop mail system will be FreeBSD based. I can certainly come up with some sort of 'dontation', but, of course, I'll need some official 'proceedure' to deposit the funds that our purchasing department will grok...something like an 'enterprise subscription' to the CDs that's more a long the line of $1500/year instead of $150? -- John Soward <a href="http://neworder.cc.uky.edu/">JpS</a>; Sr. Systems Programmer 'The Midnight sun will burn you up.' University of Kentucky (NeXT and MIME mail OK) -R. Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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