From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 18:10:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24869 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:10:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24838 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:10:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mestery@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27899; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:10:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma027787; Wed, 4 Mar 98 20:09:45 -0600 Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA22444; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:09:44 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:09:44 -0600 (CST) From: Kyle Mestery To: John Kelly cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-Reply-To: <34ffe875.41707848@mail.cetlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, John Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:23:36 -0700, Nate Williams > wrote: > > >So, you don't get 'control', you get to state what you like and hope > >that the developers choose to impliment it. If they do, great. If they > >don't, great too, but you may choose not to give more money in the > >future because they didn't do what you wanted them to do. > > I understand your reasoning, but it's not enough incentive to make me > part with my money. Clearly many have agreed with your viewpoint, but > I also think there are many others who will agree with mine. > Apparently not. I have seen only two emails up to this point that merely defend something similar to your viewpoint. As Jordan has stated, if you want something done, and you have the funding, then go ahead and find developers to code what you want done. Continuing to push this issue in this forum is obviously getting you nowhere. -- Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Network Systems Group "Keep honking, I'm reloading." "Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message