From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 8 22:54:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA23995 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 22:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netrail.net (nathan@netrail.net [205.215.6.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA23974; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 22:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nathan@localhost) by netrail.net (8.7.5/Netrail) with SMTP id BAA17863; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 01:54:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 01:54:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Stratton To: Chris Watson cc: Paul Traina , Jaye Mathisen , 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: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 8 Jun 1996, Chris Watson wrote: > I have come around to that thinking myself since the day after i started > my gripe about -stable sticking around. I think what we are seeing here is > that FreeBSD has become so popular among corporate and mission critical > places, That these places are run by suits or admins who are used to > "commercial" grade OS's. Which FreeBSD pounds into the ground i believe. > And these people are not grasping the concept of how little help you folks > have. And that this is not a commercial OS. The comments of david and > yourself and a few others the last week has projected a feeling that some > of you are just burning out on this project. I would ahte to see that > happen, and im hoping that if nothing else comes out of this that the core > team gets more help and more donations of a financial nature to help > lighten the enourmous load you guys have. Im quite comfortable now having > gotten used to -stable for my ISP and taken it for granted that going back > to the old way of just releasing snaps of the upcoming version at > intervals of stability is the best way to go. I dont think theres much of > a need to discuss the demise of -stable anymore. It's just to big of a > monster to tackle right now with given resources. > Besides if this -stable issue doesnt die soon im gonna have to start > greping my mail and rm'ing anything with stable in it :) We use FreeBSD for our routers and servers, we are not large but would like to help in any way we can. Can someone setup a www page of what is needed and a way for people to send money? I know that netrail and many other ISPs would send you money and hardware for support if we just knew what the needs were and had a way of say paying you via CC or something. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34