From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 8 15:52:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA01311 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 15:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (precipice.shockwave.com [171.69.108.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA01303; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 15:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shockwave.com (localhost.shockwave.com [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA09118; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 15:50:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606082250.PAA09118@precipice.shockwave.com> To: Jaye Mathisen cc: chris@usa.nai.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What about... was: Re: -Stable, credit card donations to FreeBSD, Inc. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jun 1996 15:11:58 PDT." Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 15:50:27 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jaye, There's nothing stopping anyone from doing just that. Go out, grab a snapshot of 2.2, and start selling support. Charge people for access to the supporters. Maybe some of the original FreeBSD crew will join your company (cf. Cygnus). I can only speak for myself, but *I* do this for fun. If someone was paying money to FreeBSD, Inc. for "support" and I was obligated to read their mail, they're going to nag me for support because they expect it. I'm afraid when I work for money, I take the job seriously, and I charge appropriately, and I suspect that most people reading this list would be utterly aghast if they heard what I charge. If you want a commercially supported BSD based operating system, there's a wonderful one already available. If you want to put up with the vagaries of FreeBSD, which has a rich contributor pool (thankfully not as rich as the Linux crowd), then you're welcome. Writing new code is fun. Keeping other people's computers running is less so. We do the later because we think FreeBSD is cool and like to spread the word. I was originally violently opposed to dropping the concept of a -stable branch, but supporting only -current is starting to sound better and better every time I think about it. Paul