Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:51:35 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Michael Langey <pryzm@mail.airmail.net> Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virtual Unreality? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111204034.307G-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <32D7F5ED.A04@mail.airmail.net>
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On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Michael Langey wrote: > open browser/ODBC.... software. I've read some of your FAQs and several > of your pages and cannot believe my eyes. Can you tell me where I can > find more about who you are, why you're doing this, how you can offer all > this for free? Are you wealthy philanthropists? Generally, it is a collaborative effort by (a) people obsessed with systems programming who mannage to squeeze about 48 hours into a day and (b) normal people who find FreeBSD useful enough for their own purposes that they feel good about giving back to the project in small ways such as patches that fix bugs. The people in group (a) absorb these and periodically mash it into a release. A third category (c) are organizations that have found FreeBSD useful enought to warrant employing in house support. These support people typically contribute back into the project as well. Some, like Walnut Creek CDROM, have provided rather substantial amounts of support. Chapter 1 of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook) describes the history and direction of the project in more detail. -john
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