From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 15:55:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25620 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:55:24 -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 PAA25575 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:55:09 -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 SAA16690; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:55:02 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Brian Beattie Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 23:57:00 GMT Message-ID: <3500e925.41883882@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 PAA25589 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:44:56 -0800 (PST), Brian Beattie wrote: >I would agree, and in any case, an entity with a large chunck of money >and a specific feature in mind would be better off funding the effort >directly. That causes fragmentation and duplication of efforts. Collective unity is better. >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? As long as the software remains "freed" it cannot be corrupted by any amount of money. Anyone unhappy with the changes can always split to form their own movement, maintaining collective unity within their own interest group. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message