From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 10 09:42:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23867 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA23846; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:41:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (precipice.shockwave.com [171.69.108.33]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id JAA16872 ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:41:57 -0700 Received: from shockwave.com (localhost.shockwave.com [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23011; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606101638.JAA23011@precipice.shockwave.com> To: chris@usa.nai.net cc: Jaye Mathisen , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What about... was: Re: -Stable, credit card donations to FreeBSD, Inc. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:37:26 EDT." <31BC4136.2386@nai.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:38:18 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Chris Lukas Subject: Re: What about... was: Re: -Stable, credit card donations to FreeBSD >>, Inc. I wholeheartedly agree. I actually find it difficult to base my business on a product that some is NOT making money on. Who is going to run the paid subscription list, and do the developers agree? (reverse order). Chris Lukas http://www.bsdi.com/ We already have one paid-support BSD unix, and it happens to be a pretty good one at that. I don't see the need to make a "Not-So-Free-BSD". It's a pretty poor business model to support FreeBSD, because 85% of your potential revenue stream will try to screw you. BSDI controls this by selling licenses on a per-CPU basis. Cygnus controls this by incorporating fixes into FSF versions of code slower than they incorporate into their own code (which is, again, licensed). Paul