Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:32:09 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <Brian_Beattie@Atlas.com> To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304172721.19978G-100000@coyote.prepaid.atlas.com> In-Reply-To: <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net>
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, John Kelly wrote: > 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. > > I'm not asking volunteers to do anything. I'm proposing a model which > may *possibly* attract enough money to create an organization which > can affort to hire administrators to handle those chores, and pay the > coders for what they do best. > > Think in terms of a $10,000,000 (or more) budget per year and you will > begin to see the light. > I think the answer you are getting from the core team and some of us others is, that you are free to take your $10M and form a consortium to develop any features you wish based on FreeBSD. You may also give these changes back to the FreeBSD team would will gladly incorporate any changes that fit with their goals. You can also create your own $BSD and sell it under any sort of license you wish. Brian Beattie Atlas PrePaid Services Brian_Beattie@atlas.com 503.228.1400x4355 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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