From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 15:47:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23318 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:47:02 -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 PAA23274 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:46:59 -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 QAA16759; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:46:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA13147; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:46:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:46:26 -0700 Message-Id: <199803042346.QAA13147@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: Chuck Robey , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-Reply-To: <34fde4f8.40814877@mail.cetlink.net> References: <34fde4f8.40814877@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 > >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. Great, go hire a FreeBSD developer full-time, and you'll get the best of both worlds. > If FreeBSD developers don't want their "volunteer" project to grow > into a well funded organization, another group will come along who do. History disagrees with you. > And they can easily take all the work done by the poor volunteers and > call their own project BigBucksBSD or whatever they like. You mean like 'BSDi'? Me-thinks such an organization already exists, and isn't doing so well IMHO. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message