From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 10:16:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16018 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:16:41 -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 KAA15985; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:16:28 -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 LAA14239; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:16:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA09958; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:16:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:16:18 -0700 Message-Id: <199803041816.LAA09958@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: Steve Logue , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-Reply-To: <34fd483f.682772@mail.cetlink.net> References: <12740.888967601@time.cdrom.com> <34fec28f.98429829@mail.cetlink.net> <34FCF201.B9B5DB16@acm.org> <34fd483f.682772@mail.cetlink.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> I'll donate $250 or more, but only for a vote on what work gets > >> funded. ... > > Some have reacted with horror to this idea but it seems pragmatic to > me. That's because you aren't the one doing the work. You can't force me to do the work, and as was stated, $250 is peanuts. Heck, I did $250 worth of work last night for free working on porting an ethernet driver from PAO to FreeBSD at my consulting wages (for free even). > Obviously, the more you donate the more you can influence the vote, > but that's as it should be. It's not a political democracy. It's not a democracy at all. That's why I think a 'hint' is a better way to go. You get the warm fuzzy feeling that you are making a choice, but you aren't *expecting* your vote to come true. More like a wish than a vote. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message