From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 12:57:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24730 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:57:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24711; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:57:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA06847; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 21:52:31 +0100 (CET) To: Brian Beattie cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , John Kelly , dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Robey , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Mar 1998 12:44:56 PST." Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 21:52:31 +0100 Message-ID: <6845.889044751@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >One thing that concerns me is the following: > >UNIX version 6 had in some sense three offspring, Research Edition 8 >(which never really made it out of the labs), BSD 4.4 and System V. If >one considers the funding model of the last two, do we really want large >amounts of corporate money? No, I don't think we do, but it would be really nice if we could get a handful of the best hackers we have liberated from the utter waste of time which occupies too much of their lives. And before anybody starts the crack jokes on this one: I'm not talking about wifes and kids here! And yes, I'm fully aware of the old saying "Beware what you ask for, you may end up getting it!" -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message