From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 30 16:07:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21099 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@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 QAA21034 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:06:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00527; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: PHILADALE@aol.com cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD supporter In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 15:29:55 EDT." Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 16:06:06 -0700 Message-ID: <523.896569566@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am ready to purchase stocks if you are on the wall street market. > Hope to hear from you soon. Heh. No, and I doubt we'll be so listed anytime soon. We're a non-profit group run primarily by volunteers, and one thing I've found out as we get further into this is that money frequently only _complicates_ a number of issues. Sure, it's a fond vision to imagine $10M or so in the bank and a group of 20 hard-core developers all working away from our FreeBSD workshop set up in a picturesque european city on the banks of the Rhine river somewhere, but to accomplish all that would first require that some number of us pretty much cease all other work while all the 1001 details of going commercial were worked out. Meanwhile, the market would move on and our progess would be impeded while all the details of who would be employed and who would not were being worked out, to say nothing of getting useful work out of the 20 while they shuffled their lives completely around. Meanwhile, without any of this kind of overhead, we're doing very well this year and if progress is slow, it's in only a few areas which a few spot applications of cash can also help out a lot more than a big stock offering and I think to aggressively pursue commercial opportunities right now would only be a good way of potentially grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory. The system we have now works pretty well, money is being found here and there for those who really want to work on FreeBSD full-time (and have the skills to do so) and I don't think it's really the right time to be changing horses. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message