From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 20:51:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD1D37B812 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrestc@workhorse.iMach.com) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24926; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:51:52 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:51:52 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: Will Andrews Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Opensource is not free In-Reply-To: <20000404230328.B13887@argon.blackdawn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > I would just like to point out that there are many more (several thousand > if not tens of thousands) people who contribute to FreeBSD, but are not > committers. We're talking about, say, 25,000 people * avg 0.5 hour each * avg > $35/hr * 365 days/yr = $160 million. Let's just say the number of hours > committers spend is a lot more than 57,750. Now, that's a labor of love. Thank you for adding a point which I thought about and then forgot to add. I also wanted to say that I am not necessarily free from guilt either - there are lots of things I could be doing more for not only freebsd but also for some of the other open-source projects that I make money from. I intend to work on rectifying (sp?) this in the near future... - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message