From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 17:42:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16457 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:42:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16442; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:42:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA07734; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:39:39 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA05086; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:39:37 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:39:37 -0700 Message-Id: <199803040139.SAA05086@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-Reply-To: <13664.888974649@time.cdrom.com> References: <199803040003.RAA03710@mt.sri.com> <13664.888974649@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > My gut-level reaction to the donation is that you give the donater the > > ability to give the developers a 'hint' at what they'd like, with the > > How is this any different than people being able to give us hints > (via the mailing lists) now? Or are you asking for a comment field > specifically on the donation card, or something? Sort of. If people feel like they have at least a 'say' in how they're money is spent (w/out the obligation), we may get more 'return on investment' if we use that money for those tasks (however thankless they are) the 'masses' have asked for. It more formalized than asking for hints on mailing lists, and has a bit more weight in that the user requesting something has shown greater than normal interest in FreeBSD, therefore it is more likely that a developer would end up with more kudos/hardware/$$/whatever by respecting his wishes. However, the developers are not required to follow the wishes of the users. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message