Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:11:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <199803050011.QAA22972@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:02:37 GMT." <3501ea66.42205029@mail.cetlink.net>
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> On Wed, 04 Mar 1998 21:52:31 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp > <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > >>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. > > Whether the money is small or large, I don't see why anyone should be > unwilling to work at the direction of those funding the effort. They > do it at their current employment, why not for the paying donors of > FreeBSD? None at all. But if the "paying donors" are balkanised into $250 paying shares, there isn't going to be any "direction". If, as a paying donor, you want control of the use of your money, I recommend approaching one or more of the available FreeBSD-literate consultants. Many of them will work on FreeBSD for competitive if not downright discount amounts. Your $250 would, for example, buy an evening of my time, during which I would conscientiously work on whatever you asked for. I'm pretty cheap, but have fairly low availability. If this isn't enough, then you need to find, on your own bat, other donors that share your motivation. There's nothing stopping you doing this, and in fact it would be encouraged. What people are resisting is that the FreeBSD project, whose volunteers are already chronically overworked, should do this finding and organising for you. What is *annoying* people is that this has been said to you at least five or six times already, and you appear to have either ignored or simply failed to understand it. -- \\ 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
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