From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 16:54:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09455 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:54:37 -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 QAA09450 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:54:36 -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 QAA23162; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:50:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803050050.QAA23162@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) cc: Mike Smith , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:38:07 GMT." <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:50:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id QAA09451 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:11:25 -0800, Mike Smith > 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