From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 12 17:33: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from crotus.sc.intel.com (scfdns02.sc.intel.com [143.183.152.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A425F37B403 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:33:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by crotus.sc.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.40 2001/06/06 21:14:49 root Exp $) with ESMTP id AAA08238 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 00:33:04 GMT Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.14 2001/01/02 18:39:59 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id RAA21745 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:33:04 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-To: X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id UAA22141; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:33:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15142.46271.434974.979654@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:33:03 -0700 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Making donations easier (was Re: Can't get WC to bill me right!) In-Reply-To: <20010613000151.9004.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> References: <200106122352.JAA23943@lightning.itga.com.au> <20010613000151.9004.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ On Tuesday, June 12, Gerd Knops wrote: ] > Same fate here. EMails and phone calls did not help. Guess I will > cancel my subscription, hate to support incompetence. There are > probably better ways than a subscription to support FreeBSD anyway. > Well, now that you brought it up, I will bring up the question I've been wanting to ask but afraid to as it brought up flames last time somebody mentioned it. I use FreeBSD. I love FreeBSD. I live FreeBSD (ask my wife :). I want to support FreeBSD. I keep my subscription to FreeBSD cd's just as a "token" of my appreciation for the developers in the hopes that some of my $$$ gets fed back to those who are paid professionally to develop it or for funds for buying new hardware for paid/unpaid developers to dink with. Jordan has several times said that "not much profit" are brought in from the CD-ROM sales (quoting jkh "loosely" here). I haven't actually *used* my CDs (except for pushing them onto people at work and giving them to my little girl as a fascinating toy) since 3.0-RELEASE--after that with broadband access and ISO images, it's pretty pointless. I just keep the subscription to "support" FreeBSD. I see that section 20.2.5 of the Handbook shows that contributions can be sent to FreeBSD, Inc. or wired directly to a Bank of America account. I was trudging to some project's website yesterday (open source software--can't remember what it was) and they had opened up a Paypal account where donations could be given to support the project. Couldn't we get this avenue setup as well considering that there already is a Bank of America account for FreeBSD, Inc.? I personally would cancel my CD subscription and funnel the same $$$ dollars around each release into this account if it was "easy" (i.e. Paypal ... ok, ebay has made me lazy :). Comments? -Jr ps: Is there some sort of quarterly public disclosure about how much money came into this account, where it went, what services or h/w was purchased with it, etc. While whole-heartedly wanting to support FreeBSD and its paid/unpaid developers, I wouldn't want to flush my money down some hole with no "tangible" value (much like my Home Owner's Association check each quarter :) or idea of where the $$$ went. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, (space for rent, cheap!) | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message