From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 11 23: 1:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE09137BCA7 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA22389; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:01:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Michael Robinson Cc: Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:52:30 +0800." <200007120552.NAA41391@netrinsics.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:01:48 -0700 Message-ID: <22386.963381708@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >"Contribute to make this happen (more quickly and closer to > >development)! Read the list, compare it to the doc and feedback > >your diffs to update the latter. Or pay someone else to do this. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Does paying full price for Walnut Creek CD-ROMs three times a year count? I'll take this as a serious question: It does count, but only towards around 1/1200th of a developer assuming that I can also get that developer relatively cheaply and that it doesn't cost me anything at all to move him. Once you add up his full benefit package (medical, dental, 401K, insurance, etc) and salary, it still takes another 1199 of you to pay for the rest of him just through buying CDs at full price, three times a year. Then we can start adding up the cost of his machine, his office space, his network access, and lots of other infrastructural things which I'd just as soon not go into right now. To summarize, it counts, but not nearly enough to make it a meaningful answer to the quoted paragraph. Without one hell of a lot of volunteers working very very hard, each and every open source project out there would sink tomorrow if it had to switch to CD revenues as the sole method of making technical, and many other forms of, progress. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message