From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 14:10:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22284 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 14:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22174 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 14:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA11860; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 14:08:52 -0800 (PST) To: Karl Denninger cc: Brian Handy , Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:54:23 CST." <19980303105423.04044@mcs.net> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 14:08:52 -0800 Message-ID: <11855.888962932@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, the obvious question is: How much of what you spend on CDs goes to > the FreeBSD project? Impossible to quantify, really. They pay my salary and the saleries of two other folks who do only FreeBSD work. They house our machines (and generally buy us new ones when we need them), they give us network connectivity, they publish our newsletters and they pay our airfare and hotel costs when we go off to evangelize about FreeBSD. They also handle the "matching funds" arrangement for FreeBSD articles published, Sean Eric Fagin being the last one to reap this particular bounty for his Dr. Dobbs article. All these things benefit them as well in their CD sales, of course, but it's certainly true to say that if we were wholly independant, we'd have to scrape together the funding for such things ourselves and it wouldn't be cheap. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message