From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 15:40:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21525 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21512 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.1]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA15051; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:39:56 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Chuck Robey Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 23:41:54 GMT Message-ID: <34fde4f8.40814877@mail.cetlink.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAA21513 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:06:51 -0500 (EST), Chuck Robey wrote: >If the only thing that you can see are wasted opportunities to make bucks, >why are you involved with a volunteer OS? I personally think it's because >you *like* messing around with FreeBSD ... isn't that so? > It started as a hobby but now my interest is primarily for business use. If FreeBSD developers don't want their "volunteer" project to grow into a well funded organization, another group will come along who do. And they can easily take all the work done by the poor volunteers and call their own project BigBucksBSD or whatever they like. I expect there will be a market demand for this, and some enterprising developers will step in to fill that demand. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message