From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 08:00:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00244 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neworder.cc.uky.edu (neworder.cc.uky.edu [128.163.18.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00237 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu) Received: (from soward@localhost) by neworder.cc.uky.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) id LAA02846 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:04:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199803031108.MAA22909@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:00:49 -0500 (EST) Organization: Univesity of Kentucky Technical Services From: John Soward To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 JpS 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