From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 19:03:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02687 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:03:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02679; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.1]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA10571; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 22:03:04 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Nate Williams Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 03:05:02 GMT Message-ID: <3500c33c.98603282@mail.cetlink.net> References: <12740.888967601@time.cdrom.com> <199803040003.RAA03710@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199803040003.RAA03710@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id TAA02680 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:03:43 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: >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 >understanding that it's only a hint. >Whaddya think? For small contributions it might be a workable model, but you'll never attract serious money if you're not willing to do the donors' bidding. Who was it that said to ban corporate contributions, Jordan? That's silly. As long as the source code remains free, everyone gets the benefit, no matter how narrow the donor's request might seem. After all, it's THEIR MONEY and they don't have to part with it if they don't want to. All of you are thinking too small. THINK BIG! -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message