Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:20:07 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? Message-ID: <19980304152007.09812@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199803040358.TAA02545@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 07:58:12PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303222527.10328F-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> <199803040358.TAA02545@rah.star-gate.com>
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(moved to -chat) On Tue, 3 March 1998 at 19:58:12 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Nate Williams wrote: >> >>>> Wandering , if we can get a grant from the goverment to support the SMP >>>> project or to support FreeBSD ? >>> >>> The government has no money for such things anymore. >> >> There is some money flowing into academia. The NSF digitial >> library initiative is handing out about US$50 million this year. >> Unfortunately, SMP devolpment would be on the fringes of their >> agenda specified in their request for proposals. > I must have a cool SMP in order to support tera bytes libraries, > how else will I drive giganets with PCs, Cool if we get funding > we can drive Internet II , etc... > > I know that there is money flowing around we need a couple of > guys that know they way around Washington to get the money. > Incidently, FreeBSD goverment backing is not restricted to the US 8) Well, I think you should keep quiet about it. What you want is some Bay Area newspaper to point out that currently Finland outstrips the US regarding operating system development, and that the US Government is doing nothing to remedy the situation. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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