From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 14:43:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02051 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 14:43:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mn26hp6.honeywell.com (mn26hp6.honeywell.com [129.30.4.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01685; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 14:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sleas@mn26hp6.honeywell.com) Received: from localhost by mn26hp6.honeywell.com with SMTP (1.40.112.4/16.2) id AA143064892; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:41:32 -0600 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:41:32 -0600 (CST) From: Shawn Leas To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Eivind Eklund , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mikael Karpberg , "John S.Dyson" , Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <12025.888963573@time.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Offer membership. 1 year membership is $10.00, two years for only $18,50. > > A lifetime membership for a nice, round $1,000.00. People can commit to > > lifetime membership by sending $25.00/month for 40 months. > > Sounds kinda scary, really - I think I'd break the donation blocks > into more manageable chunks (and make the one year membership just a > bit more - $10 is almost not even worth the handling fee). Maybe the membership thing is a little inflexible, however, if you want to donate, donate! Membership doesn't have to be the only way to contribute. > I'm assuming you're not serious in that particular paragraph (and if you > were, I'd demand $1,000,000 a year for the right to cross-post to as many > mailing lists as they wanted - I HATE that :). Selling exemption to netiquete is panamount to the pope selling forgiveness in the old days of the catholic church. (Please don't take this as a flame, catholics, it's just historical fact) I think the price should be $1,000,000,000. > > To keep the project socialistically correct, we reject any and all > > corportate donations. Or, we may say that corporate membership costs 35 > > times more than an individual membership and carries 1/3 the voting rights. Reject donations??? Maybe from Chinese interests who just want political influence. Shawn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message