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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> Yeah, and these all cost money, and are limited-appeal, so they're
> likely to not make much money, especially if there are other vendors
> doing similar things.  The other side of the coin which I didn't
> mention is that the FreeBSD distribution market probably isn't big
> enough to support more than one or two vendors.  To some extent that's
> not our problem, unless they all collapse except for the bare-bones
> vendors like CheapBytes who don't do anything to directly help the
> project, in which case we've screwed ourselves out of funding.

If the FreeBSD Foundation is an existing entity now, maybe we
can just change the license for the CD images to "not for resale"
unless the distributor signs an agreement with the Foundation ?

-SB

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