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Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry
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At 06:47 PM 4/12/97 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
>>
>> >Those who are making money with FreeBSD/Linux/whatever at least have the
>> >power to get those things done.  The developers of FreeBSD donate their
>> >time, others who make use of it are welcome to improve FreeBSD by donating
>> >other things :-).
>> 
>> Thats fine,  but then you should resign yourselves to having a cult OS and
>> not whimper 
>> about "commercial registries", as if thats going to make a difference.
>> 
>The whimpering that has been happening hasn't been from me.  I am saying
>that if someone wants something, begging won't fix the problem.  The
>tools exist to fix the problem, and all it takes is deciding to do the
>things to make things happen.  One can contribute money, one can
>contribute time, or maybe even both in order to get the results that
>one wants.
>
>Many of the things that I do have been supported by commercial need.
Directly
>or indirectly there is often compensation for my time (like there is for
>others.)  When I am not doing something for hire, I work on various parts
>of the infrastructure that need to be worked on.  Others often do that also.
>
>So, my suggestion is that if a change from the current course is wanted, and
>no-one is willing to donate the time for free, those that want the change
>can do it, or fund (or otherwise enable) the change.

Its really not feasible, unfortunately. The only way to do it is become a
BSDI, 
which is a serious step. Or, take a snapshot and maintain it as...say, a
router
O/S, like OpenBSD has done. 

Dennis