From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 15:37:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA15474 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 15:37:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (staidans.client.uq.edu.au [130.102.39.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA15469 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 15:36:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au [203.12.39.2]) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA04555 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:37:04 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 20 Dec 95 09:37:06 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 20 Dec 95 09:36:40 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:36:32 -1000 Subject: Re: What ever happened to... ? / new money spinner Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <2D7D104B40@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On 19 Dec 95 at 8:41, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > Gary, > You are way off base here. Walnut Creek provides SIGNIFICANT support > for the FreeBSD project. 1) They supply development hardware. 2) > They supply Internet connectivity. and 3) They pay the salary of > Jordan to work FULL TIME on FreeBSD. > > Frankly, I don't see how they are making enough on all the FreeBSD > materials to provide this much support and still break even on the > P&L statement. > > ---- > Richard Wackerbarth > rkw@dataplex.net This may not be of any help, but perhaps a new freebsd product would help? The one I have in mind is a documentation / support CD. If it included the -questions archive, the handbook, the documentation project and the browsable kernel source. All in html or some other portable format, with a browser. You get the picture, setup so even a newbie could work it. Perhaps with ghostscript, chimera, xdvi etc in packages. Present it to WC ready to print, and ask for 5% of the profit for a hardware/development fund. I can tell you that I'd subscribe straight away. Since I run FreeBSD at home without a net link, I'd refer to it all the time. At work it'd be great since I could mount it under my web page heirarchy and browse at CD speed, rather that the dog slow AARNET speed here in Australia. This is a product I'd love to see! What do you think? Peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432