From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 16:34:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05730 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:34:06 -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 QAA05668 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:33:37 -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 RAA17194; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:33:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA13876; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:33:07 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:33:07 -0700 Message-Id: <199803050033.RAA13876@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: Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-Reply-To: <3504f132.43945382@mail.cetlink.net> References: <3500e925.41883882@mail.cetlink.net> <199803050007.RAA13519@mt.sri.com> <3504f132.43945382@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 > >> >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. > > > >Back that up with facts, or even explanations, please? > > If you have 50 contractors all working and paid independently, with > little or no knowledge of what the others are doing, duplication and > wasted effort is inevitable. On the other hand, a funded FreeBSD > could be a clearinghouse for better organization. And if these folks are working on FreeBSD, thus affecting one another and the rest of the project, why are they all of a sudden working in a vacuum when they get paid with commercial funs more so than when they work for free? Again, the argument has no merit. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message