From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 21:51:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA01054 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:51:10 -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 VAA01049 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:50:52 -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 NAA05241 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 13:50:05 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 20 Dec 95 13:50:06 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 20 Dec 95 13:49:51 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 13:49:43 -1000 Subject: Re: What ever happened to... ? / new money spinner Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <31B5E04389@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On 19 Dec 95 at 21:50, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I think you may have missed Richard's point.. > > WC currently pays Jordan's salary (however much that is), to > which Jordan is dedicated to developing/maintaining FreeBSD...WC > currently pays for the T1 that freebsd.org is resting at the other > end of...WC pays for the hardware that is used by freebsd.org... > > ...so, so far as I can see it, WC is turning around a larger > chunk then 5% of the profits back into the project...I'm curious as > to how many ppl buy copies of the CDrom vs. ftp'ng it in from the > server... does WC break even, or are they currently losing money on > the project? Sorry, I shouldn't have quoted Richards message to start with. I did get his point, and think WC are being great. I even give preferance to WC's other cd's because of their support for FreeBSD. I was really jumping in on an earlier topic in the "What ever happened to..." thread where people where tossing about ideas on how to get some new hardware. I wanted to think of a way to give WC a product to sell, with a minimum of risk & overhead on their part. Perhaps 5% of the subscription profit would be a fairer idea. Then they would know before a printing how many was the minimum they would sell, and exactly how much was to go to the hardware / development fund. I would hope that most of the regular FreeBSD community would subscribe, just to see something more come into the project. Cheers, Peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432