From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 08:54:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10517 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:54:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10463 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:54:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karl@Mars.mcs.net) Received: from Mars.mcs.net (karl@Mars.mcs.net [192.160.127.85]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id KAA19022; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:54:24 -0600 (CST) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Mars.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) id KAA19656; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:54:23 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19980303105423.04044@mcs.net> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:54:23 -0600 From: Karl Denninger To: Brian Handy Cc: Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? References: <199803031508.QAA23366@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Handy on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 08:50:19AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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