Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 18:32:31 GMT From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations.u Message-ID: <3502ebe8.21046051@mail.cetlink.net> In-Reply-To: <199803051810.LAA25143@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199803051810.LAA25143@usr06.primenet.com>
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:10:18 +0000 (GMT), Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote: >> PHK told Karl to pay a contractor to fix his NFS problems. But Karl >> is not the only one having NFS problems. It doesn't make sense for >> Karl to pay for all the work of fixing NFS and everyone else to get a >> free ride. > >So you are saying that you don't support the GPL model? ;-). HAHAHAHA. I won't touch that. >> Karl, I, and many others would like to pool our resources to avoid >> bearing the financial burden individually. Someone has to administer >> that type of arrangement. Pay them reasonable administration fees. > >That's where I was obliquely heading. I think the administration should >be done by FreeBSD, proper, rather than bringing gunslingers to do it. Agreed. Otherwise, too much paid work will never see the tree and the money spent will go to waste. >Have you read http://mozilla.org/mission.html yet? Two parts stand out: >And we will, above all, be flexible and responsive. We realize that >if we are not perceived as providing a useful service, we will become >irrelevant, and someone else will take our place. A very good attitude to have. >We will collect changes, help authors synchronize their work, and >periodically make new source releases which incorporate the best work >of the net as a whole. That's key to the future success of FreeBSD. A funded development model can be part of that future, however, the FreeBSD organization must be willing to manage change or be left behind. If "we" don't do it, the Linux people surely will. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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