From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 15:54:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25260 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:54:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25238 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:53:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22893; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:51:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803042351.PAA22893@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Mar 1998 23:41:54 GMT." <34fde4f8.40814877@mail.cetlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 15:51:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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. Great! This is how a lot of serious organisations first come to meet FreeBSD, and it's a testament to the product that it covers both sides of the coin as well as it does. > 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. Sure, that's what the BSD spirit is all about. In fact, this has happened already. It's called BSD/OS though, not BigBucksBSD. > I expect there will be a market demand for this, and some enterprising > developers will step in to fill that demand. I expect that your perspective will broaden with time. Right now, all we are asking you to do is to look and listen for a while. The people that are steering the FreeBSD project all have extensive project development experience; I would hesitate to broadly criticise their style without a lot more information than you can possibly posess. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message