Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:50:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <199803050050.QAA23162@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:38:07 GMT." <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net>
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> On Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:11:25 -0800, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> > wrote: > > >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. > > You're just not getting it, because you're still thinking small. No, I get it just fine. You're talking about a ridiculously hypothetical model while we are trying to do something useful. > Think in terms of a $10,000,000 (or more) budget per year and you will > begin to see the light. If I am to think in that order of magnitude, I will make some decidedly uncharitable suggestions about what you can do with your $250 donation. However, slipping back to the real world, your $250 would allow us to obtain any of a number of very useful items to aid developers in supporting real hardware. Or you could save us an hour of shopping time and, having identified a problem item, donate 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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