Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:54:23 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> To: Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <19980303105423.04044@mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980303084641.20771A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>; from Brian Handy on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 08:50:19AM -0800 References: <199803031508.QAA23366@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <Pine.OSF.3.96.980303084641.20771A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 08:50:19AM -0800, Brian Handy wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > >why don't you just buy 10 subscriptions and give away the disks if > >you really don't want them. Surely there is a lot of profit on > >each CD so you'd still end up supporting the project without too > >many procedural complications. > > > >and you can always justify the expense by saying that you need to have > >the media around in all labs etc... > > I think it depends. Do you want to get money into the hands of FreeBSD > people or into the hands of Walnut Creek? (Not to knock Walnut Creek.) > I'm wondering if my $40 subscription would be better spent mailed in as a > donation. If they buy $1500 in CD's, the FreeBSD project will get some > small fraction of that compared to buying *one* CD subscription and paying > the big bucks for it. > > It'd be really easy to argue this both ways. > > Brian Well, the obvious question is: How much of what you spend on CDs goes to the FreeBSD project? -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | NEW! K56Flex support on ALL modems Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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