From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 7 20:28: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44C737B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 20:28:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f683RHt93816; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 20:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net Cc: rh@matriplex.com, brian@Awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com Subject: Re: Authentic FreeBSD (Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral) In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010707202716O.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 20:27:16 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 18 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Erm, as much I appreciate all these ideas for charging money for various things, I really doubt that anyone in the FreeBSD project, whether they're on the core team or on the Foundation board of directors, really want to get into the "trademark for money" game or really anything else that involves goods and services. Straight donation-based fundraising works pretty well considering that we don't have all that many things to spend money on anyway and, surprisingly, it's been a constant challenge to find ways of directing funding sources (be they Yahoo! funds or FreeBSD, Inc) money in directions that are genuinely productive and can be somehow metered as such. It's often the case that actually tracking the effectiveness of, say, $500 towards some theoretically worthy cause costs you thousands of dollars in man-hours. Heck, If somebody tried to donate a million bucks to the foundation right now, I'd actually expect the current directors to probably scream and run away. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message